Floral fractal tutorial in Photoshop (Advanced)

1. Launch Photoshop CS3 (or higher) and create a new document with the dimensions 1920 x 1080 px, 72 ppi in RGB color mode.

2. Keep the background color black.

3. Create a new layer (layer 1) above the background layer. Press 'G' for gradient. Open gradient editor and click on the tiny arrow next to presets and select noise samples from the dropdown menu.
Select any color you like.

4. Fill the layer with the selected gradient.

5. Set the blending mode of layer 1 to overlay.

6. Create a new layer in between the two existing layers and draw a petal using the pen tool (P). Press Ctrl+enter to make a selection and fill it with white color. Keep the selection.

7. With the marquee tool selected, right click and select feather and set it to 30 pixels.

 8. Now hit delete.

9. Duplicate(Ctrl+J) the petal and rotate it and follow steps 12 and 13 to make a complete flower.

10. Press Ctrl+J , now press Ctrl+T, resize the new petal and move it downwards as shown in the image. Press enter when done.

11. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shft+T  to repeat the previous action. Select all the layers and merge them using Ctrl+E.

12. Press Ctrl+J , now press Ctrl+T, set the pivot point at the bottom, resize and rotate it as shown in the image. Press enter when done.

13. Press Ctrl+Alt+Shft+T  to repeat the previous action. Select all the layers and merge them using Ctrl+E.

14. Now, copy, resize and arrange the motif you just made to complete your design.

15. Watch this video tutorial to completely understand the method.

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Floral Fractals in Photoshop

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In this tutorial I will show you how to make beautiful floral fractals in Photoshop CS3 or higher.

First, launch photoshop and create a new Document with 1920x1080px and 300 resolution.

Fill the Background with black colour.

Now with the Custom shape tool, create some flowers and line them up from smaller to bigger sizes as shown below.

Colour them as you wish. Make sure all the shapes are in a single layer, if not, them select the layers using the shift key and merge them by pressing Ctrl+E. 

Duplicate this layer by pressing Ctrl+J.

Press Ctrl+T in your keyboard to activate Fee Transform mode. Now, rotate them and also make the size a little smaller than the previous one.

 Now press Ctrl+Alt+Shft+T as many times you want to repeat and a spiral will start forming. When its done, select all the layers and merge them [Ctrl+E].

 Duplicate the spiral layer and press Ctrl+U for Hue/Saturation. Change the value of Hue to get different colours. Once you are happy with the colour, press OK or Enter.

Keep duplicating the layers, resize and rotate them as you wish and fill the page.

 Make a large flower and go to Filter--Blur--Gaussian Blur --Radius 8.5 .This layer should be placed below all others.

Now, take a soft brush and set the foreground colour to white. Click at the places you want to add some shine.

Set the mode to Overlay and opacity 76% 

This is the final result. 

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Light Streaks Wallpaper Tutorial in Photoshop

We are going to make a light streaks desktop wallpaper in Photoshop.

Light Streaks Desktop Wallpaper

1. For making this wallpaper you will need Photoshop, any version would do, CS3 or higher. First, launch Photoshop and create a new document. 

File--New or Ctrl+N

The dimensions should be 1920x1080 px, this gives an HD output. 75 ppi resolution is enough and choose RGB color mode.

2. Now select the Gradient tool (G) and choose a black and white gradient and both colors must have 100% opacity. Use shift while dragging the gradient tool. Make a linear gradient like the picture below. Double click on the background layer to unlock it.

3. Now, go to Filter--Distort--Wave

4. Select the settings as shown in the picture below.

No. of Generations: 10, Type: Square

You should get something like this.

5. Double click on the layer you just created and choose Gradient Overlay from the Layer Styles. Click on the small arrow next to Presets and select Spectrum. Choose the first one.

6. Change the Blend Mode to Linear Burn, Opacity: 65, Style: Reflected, Angle: 0 and click OK.

7. Create a new layer and repeat steps 2, 3 & 4 and change the blending mode of this layer to Soft Light. This will add some shine to our light streaks.

8. Now, create a new layer. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool (M) and draw a small rectangle and fill it with black color. Keep the rectangle selected and go to Edit--Define Brush Preset. A new brush will be created. Now you can delete the layer containing the rectangle.

9. Select the brush you just created and go to 

Window--Brushes (F5). 

Brush Tip Shape--Spacing: 160%

Shape Dynamics--Size Jitter: 100%, Angle Jitter: 16%, Roundness Jitter: 67%, Minimum Roundness: 38%

Scattering--Scatter: 596%, Count: 1

Resize your brush using ( [ ) & ( ] ) and click in your wallpaper to add tiny rectangles like I did.

10. Use a good font (Arial and size:200pt) to write your name or a quote and set the blending mode to Overlay. Now, double click on the text layer to access Layer Styles. Select Outer Glow--Blend Mode--Linear Light, Opacity: 75%, Color: ccffff, Spread: 8, Size: 7 and click OK.

Your Light Streaks Desktop HD Wallpaper is ready. :)