Sunday, October 31, 2010

Simple Wallpaper

How To Make A Simple Wallpaper Using Several Tools:

First, open several pictures file which you want to use to make a wallpaper by clicking "File + Open"

After choosing the pictures, create a new page to make the wallpaper by clicking "File + New".


Then, press right click at The Lasso Tool which is below The Rectangular Marquee Tool to choose the Magnetic Lasso Tool.

After clicking The Magnetic Lasso Tool, press the mouse and drag along the selected pictures which you want to crop it until you managed to meet back the point where you begin. Then, it will form a shape.

Click each of the pictures which you have cropped just now by using The Move Tool and drag it to the new page which you have created just now. Don't worry about the each of the picture layers. When you drag each of the picture to the new page, it will automatically will create a new layer. If the layer couldn't be created automatically, you can create manually by just clicking "Create a new layer".

Then, to resize the selected pictures which you want it to be smaller or bigger, press "Ctrl + T". Then, press "Shift" while enlarge the picture or smaller the picture using the mouse.

After finish resize a picture, press "Apply" so that the picture will be resize according to the size which you want it to be.

If you want to have another similar image of the cropped picture (duplicate an image), press right click at the picture layer you want to duplicate and select "Duplicate layer".

To create a background color, first press "Create a new layer". To color the background, you can choose either The Paint Bucket Tool or The Gradient Tool. If you want to play with the color tone, you can choose The Gradient Tool. To choose The Gradient Tool, press right click at The Paint Bucket Tool which is below The Eraser Tool and select The Gradient Tool. Then, click on a point and drag it to another point. Like me, i drag it to 45 degrees. Then, a black and white tone color (gradient) will be produce at the background because that is the default color. You can even change the tone color (gradient) into something else. You can even create your own combination of colors.

To edit the color tone (gradient), press The Gradient picker which is located below the "Edit".

To change the color, click the color stop. Then, you can select the color which you want.

If you want to add more colors, you can just click beside the color stop to add another color stop. After editing the colors which you want to have, press "OK".

This is one of the example of gradient color which I have edited for my background color.

Then, click on a point and drag it to another point.

After you have satisfied with your background color, you can save it. To save it, press "File + Save As".

Then, you can rename the file and locate at which place you want it to be place at. You can have any format you want for the wallpaper to be saved. If you want to edit the wallpaper next time, save the wallpaper as Photoshop (*.PSD;*.PDD) format. If you just want to have the wallpaper only, then you can save it as JPEG (*.JPG;*.JPEG;*.JPE). After completing it, press "Save".

This is my wallpaper which i have edited it and save it as JPEG. I rename the picture as Prototype Edited. This is my product of wallpaper.

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