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Yesterday I downloaded Adobe Photoshop CS4 and used it for the first time. I have had Adobe Fireworks for awhile now, but that just wont cut it anymore.
It all started when I was trying to create a personal Twitter background. I wanted to do the sunburst effect shown above but it is simply frustrating and nerve racking to do in Fireworks. As a result I downloaded Photoshop CS4 for Mac
I started with a blank layer and selected the gradient tool. I then held down shift, to keep a straight line, and dragged my courser from top to bottom. After that was completed it gave me a nice gradient or color mixing effect.
Next, I went to the menu bar and clicked “Filter” “Distort” and “Wave”. After messing with the settings for a little while I got it to look like a bunch of long rectangles. Again, I went to “Filter” “Distort” but this time I hit “Point Coordinates”, this is what gave me the sunburst effect.
So I got my sunburst effect but it just looked bla to me. Therefore I decided to create an apple background! I went on google and typed in “Old Paper” and “Retro Apple Logo” I copied and pasted both of the images into photoshop. This is the order of my layers: Old Papper, Apple Logo, and Sunburst Effect. Last I changed both the Papper and Logo layer to multiply, giving it a transparent effect and made it look nice and retro.
Do you guys like the wallpaper? Should I make new ones? Comments Welcome! Also BTW contact me at mail@billymcgovern.com if you would like me to design something for you! And send me your screenshots if you use my wallpaper!
About the Author: Billy
I have Been using computers all my life and have always been good with them. I am the owner and main blogger of BillyMcGovern.com. Follow me on Twitter @bllymcgvrn123 & Subscribe to me on YouTube
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Very nice! Following some of your steps I made my own for my Twitter, and my sites Twitter. It looks fine on Firefox, but on Chrome the image height isn’t big enough.
@Brandon I checked it out, it was very small on my screen, because I have a 23″. I recommend you make the size much bigger, almost too big just because twitter aligns pictures to the left not to the center. btw I’m glad you like my wallpaper!
@Billy, that’s what I’ll do. I was just wondering if anyone you, or anyone, knew exactly why it looks fine in Firefox, and not Chrome. I guess it’s just how the browsers read the pages.
@Brandon you may have the zoom at different settings for each browser. Or you have a toolbar in firefox that you don’t have in chrome that makes the window bigger therefore making the image not fit
pretty nice wallpaper
love it
its gone be on my mac after i’ll get it