Advanced Techniques M2

A Detailed Breakdown of a Creation of an Advanced Image

I have chosen to create a satin background to make as an advanced image. Below is a detailed 'How To' of the image.

Step One

The first thing you need to do is to select the brush tool, and make sure the brush has the blur on it. Choose the grey foreground colour and draw some broad swirls on the canvas. You can draw a few darker grey swirls if you wanted to.

Step Two

The second thing you need to do is to create a wave filter. To do this you need to click the filter tab then choose distort and finally wave. Below are the settings that you need to choose for the image.

Step Three

The next thing to do is to check if this is looking good. If you want to change some of the settings to get a more interesting swirl then you can do this now. Modify the wave filter settings to do this.

Step Four

The next thing to do is to create a bas relief filter, here you need to make sure the foreground colour is grey and the background colour is white. Then click the filter tab then choose sketch and then finally bas relief. The bas relief window will then appear. Copy the settings from the screenshot below.

Step Five

Now all you need to do is to add a guassian blur. To do this click the filter tab choose blur and then guassian blur. You can then choose a radius between 3 and 5 to get a good blur.

Step Six

You then need to add a gradient to the image. First of all you need to create a new layer. Then you need to choose the gradient tool and choose 2 gradient colours in the foreground and background colours. Select the gradient tool and choose background to foreground. Click and drag diagonally from the top left to the bottom right of the image. You can do this in any direction you want though. Now in the layers palette, set the blending mode to colour. You can also duplicate this layer and change the blending mode of this to multiply to make the colours deeper.

An example of what i created is below.