![]() It should show your gradient.Ĭhange your new layer type into either: Overlay, Soft Light or Hard Light. Applying the gradient overlay.Ĭreate a New Layer (Bottom Right – Looks like a Page with a corner folded up)ĭrag a line from the bottom of the image to the top. Now that you have your gradient set up, you can now proceed to:Ĩ (Optional Extra). Tip: You’ll want the colours a bit more bright and saturated or orangey. You can pick colours right from your textures. That to go into the colour picking window. At the bottom of the box you will see the colour of the box you selected. To change, you’ll want to click the small box in the bottom left of theīig gradient bar. (not the small arrow, the actual gradient.)Ī box will appear showing different gradient types. In the top left you will see a small gradient. Press G to equip the fill tool, click and hold on the same icon on the tool bar until a small box appears showing “Gradient Tool”. This is an interchangeable tool with the Paint Bucket/Fill tool. ![]() You will want to equip the gradient tool first of all. You can go into and drag up the saturationĪnother thing you can do is (more complex) create an overlay layer with a gradient.ħ (Optional Extra). You’ll want to make it look a lighter, more vibrant brown. Hold ALT (Important) and then move the top center box of the texture UP.Ħ (Optional Extra). Press V for the move tool or simply click on the black arrow icon. ![]() You’ll notice some unpleasant lines on both edges. The angle will want to be at 90 degrees and the power at 180. You’ll want to go into Filter -> Blur -> Motion Blur. I use 20%, but you may want to ramp it up higher for cooler results. You can see the exact value of the one I used below.ģ. Some monitors do go up to 1920×1200 though.Ģ. The size I used was 1920x1080px which, if you didn’t know, is full HD for YouTube and monitors. I will be going over the steps in Photoshop, however, it is very easy to replicate these simple effects if you know how in your preferred editor. It’s fairly easy to make a fake wood effect in Photoshop – even for beginners. WARNING: THIS WAS DONE IN PHOTOSHOP CS6 AND WON’T BE THE EXACT INSTRUCTIONS FOR OTHER VERSIONS OR EDITORS. Leaving a like also helps me determine whether I should make more! I hope this helped you! Make sure to post a comment on how helpful you thought this was. You can use Overlay, Soft Light or Colour too – I’d recommend checking those out as well. Change the Layer’s blending to your liking. You’ll be able to change it later if you don’t The final stretch is very easy and simple such is the case with fine tuning.Ĭreate a New Layer and fill it with a blue colour. (Click on the little Bas Relief thing on the right, it should go a darker colour) Now would be a good time to fiddle with values in Bas Relief if you want. I don’t know about you but I like my water wet.Ĭhange the Detail to 0 and the Smoothness to 10. Your picture will turn really gritty – don’t panic!Ĭlick on the Chrome button right underneath the Bas Relief. It looks just like the New Layer button, doesn’t it? 10 for Detail and 2 for Smoothness.įeel free to mess around with these values – better time for it later though.ĭon’t click OK! If you have it is no problem but it is nicer to adjust this way:Ĭlick that little button. You may not have known this existed if you’reĪ beginner but it is a very cheeky way of getting around things.Ĭlick on the ‘Sketch’ tab. It’s like French in school: you don’t know what it means but you use it anyway.īehold the almighty effects of Photoshop. You may not know what this is but that’s okay. Also, make sure it is Black and White as with your colours. The size really doesn’t matter but I would recommend at least over 800×800. May want to make it your screen resolution if you’re looking to make a wallpaper. Mine was 1920×1080 (also my screen resolution) so you The following steps will not reproduce the exact picture above. ![]() Looks complicated doesn’t it? Perhaps the colour was a bit too light but you’ll be making your own now. This takes me around 3 minutes to do and is not hard. When you see what you’ll be making, you may think it would be hard and time consuming to achieve.
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