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In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to make a Diablo III styled wallpaper.
For the beginning create a new file (
File>New) of
1280x1024 px and 72 dpi. Paint the first layer with black color, applying the
Paint Bucket Tool (G).
Now, let’s start making a very gloomy texture. Download out of Internet a set of ready to use brushes
D_Grungeset1.
In this case we’ll use all the brushes, except the marked one in the table below. The color’s code is
#532100. Brush’s
Opacity needs to be on
20%.
We must get almost the same thing as on the picture below:
Choose now a brush as in the next table. We’ll use it during the entire lesson.
On a new layer we’ll try to represent the blue color -
#04020F.
Opacity:20%.
Enlarge the brush’s size by pressing
Ctrl +] and try to represent one more layer of the same color.
On the next layer the brush needs to be enlarged even more, changing the
Opacity on
40% and trying to get the same result as below:
Select the white color,
Opacity of
10% and represent an element remembering the clouds.
Set the next parameters on the layers’ palette.
Select the black color and the same opacity’s value to create a dark haziness on the top part of the picture.
Create a new file of
500x500px and
72 dpi, painting it in black color.
Select the
Gradient Tool (G) on a new layer for giving it the white gradient. Select on the top gradient’s menu the option
Foreground to transparent, having a picture, like the next one.
Next select the main menu
Filter>Distort>Wave…, setting the options from below
