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Dean Winchester wallpaper tutorial
I had a request to do a tutorial for the last WP I made, so here it is! My first tutorial! I'm so psyched!
My first tutorial, by request of xphoenixrising. Constructive criticism would be AWESOME.
Okay. I know when I was first reading tutorials, even the ones that said they were basic-friendly kinda threw me off because I was starting from scratch with NO KNOWLEDGE at all, so I'm going to try and be as explicit and descriptive as I can be. The only program I've ever used is PS 6, so I hope it's translatable. I am also going to be using my version of curves, which is probably not right at all, but it's really really easy. This is going to be quite long. So without further ado, here is what we're making:
Step One!
So, the first thing we're going to do is start with a background texture. I chose this one from ofthesky.net. It has a yellowish tint which is what I wanted, but if you wanted that texture in another color, you could change it by going to image>adjust>hue, or saturation or what-have-you.
I took this image from Supernatural Media to repeat along the bottom. Crop it square. Now resize it (image>image size) to 1/5 the width of the background image. The background width is 800 in this case, so we need our silhouette image to be 160x160. Use the pointer tool to drag it onto the background image.
Now, you need to duplicate the silhouette image 4 times (go to layer>duplicate, hit enter when the box comes up, and then do it 3 more times. Each duplicate makes its own layer). Arrange the images side-by-side along the bottom of the background. Use the drop down menu at the top left of the layer palette to set each of the silhouette-image layers to 'color burn.' This makes a really neat effect over the background image.
Step Two!
Next, take this image, also from Supernatural Media, and crop it. I wanted to keep a little of the leaves and branches in it, but you can use it however you want to. Reduce the size by 1/3. Now for the curves (don't be scared!). I've never been taught how to properly use curves; I just play with them until I get the effect and coloring I want, and it makes it so much easier than messing with the hue and saturation and everything. So go to image>adjust>curves, and just go nuts. I really wanted to the snow to contrast with the bright colors of Dean's skin and clothes, so I had a fairly low input and average output, but all you're doing is adjusting to taste. When you're done, use the pointer tool to drag the image onto our background and place it on the left side. Now click on the eraser tool, change the brush to one that is large and soft, and erase all the extra stuff around Dean. I left some snow and branches above his head. When you're done, set the layer to multiply (as with curves, I don't really know the "right" way to use these. I just try them all until I like the way one looks. Hard light also looks nice on this layer).
Repeat these steps for this image (also from Supernatural Media). Crop, reduce size, play with curves until you're happy, then drag to the right side of the background, and erase the excess. Set the layer to hard light.
Step Three!
Some people would merge al the layers here, but we aren't going to yet. We have all our images done, now we're going to play with some brushes. I used a grungy text brush bygender, set it to a yellow-brown color and just stuck it in the empty spots. It looks cool under the burn and light layers. For just a little more kick, I used the famous splatter brushes by my_wonderful, and just filled in the rest.
Step Four!
Since I was inspired to make this wallpaper by the line "we sneak into his car's black leather seat/the smell of gasoline in the summer heat" from Vanessa Carlton's 'White Houses,' so I wanted to include it. I used the font face Jey from dafont.com and put my text box in the middle of the image, overlapping Dean a little bit. I was listening to my iPod at the time, and 'Brick' by Ben Folds Five came on, so I incorporated that too, using final lap and paulinho pedro azul (also from dafont.com). After I finished all of my text boxes, I merged all the layers down (layer>flatten image), and saved as a png file. And that's it!
Geez, I'm exhausted! ^.^
anxphoenixrising. Constructive criticism would be AWESOME.Okay. I know when I was first reading tutorials, even the ones that said they were basic-friendly kinda threw me off because I was starting from scratch with NO KNOWLEDGE at all, so I'm going to try and be as explicit and descriptive as I can be. The only program I've ever used is PS 6, so I hope it's translatable. I am also going to be using my version of curves, which is probably not right at all, but it's really really easy. This is going to be quite long. So without further ado, here is what we're making:
Step One!
So, the first thing we're going to do is start with a background texture. I chose this one from ofthesky.net. It has a yellowish tint which is what I wanted, but if you wanted that texture in another color, you could change it by going to image>adjust>hue, or saturation or what-have-you.
I took this image from Supernatural Media to repeat along the bottom. Crop it square. Now resize it (image>image size) to 1/5 the width of the background image. The background width is 800 in this case, so we need our silhouette image to be 160x160. Use the pointer tool to drag it onto the background image.
Now, you need to duplicate the silhouette image 4 times (go to layer>duplicate, hit enter when the box comes up, and then do it 3 more times. Each duplicate makes its own layer). Arrange the images side-by-side along the bottom of the background. Use the drop down menu at the top left of the layer palette to set each of the silhouette-image layers to 'color burn.' This makes a really neat effect over the background image.
Step Two!
Next, take this image, also from Supernatural Media, and crop it. I wanted to keep a little of the leaves and branches in it, but you can use it however you want to. Reduce the size by 1/3. Now for the curves (don't be scared!). I've never been taught how to properly use curves; I just play with them until I get the effect and coloring I want, and it makes it so much easier than messing with the hue and saturation and everything. So go to image>adjust>curves, and just go nuts. I really wanted to the snow to contrast with the bright colors of Dean's skin and clothes, so I had a fairly low input and average output, but all you're doing is adjusting to taste. When you're done, use the pointer tool to drag the image onto our background and place it on the left side. Now click on the eraser tool, change the brush to one that is large and soft, and erase all the extra stuff around Dean. I left some snow and branches above his head. When you're done, set the layer to multiply (as with curves, I don't really know the "right" way to use these. I just try them all until I like the way one looks. Hard light also looks nice on this layer).
Repeat these steps for this image (also from Supernatural Media). Crop, reduce size, play with curves until you're happy, then drag to the right side of the background, and erase the excess. Set the layer to hard light.
Step Three!
Some people would merge al the layers here, but we aren't going to yet. We have all our images done, now we're going to play with some brushes. I used a grungy text brush by
gender, set it to a yellow-brown color and just stuck it in the empty spots. It looks cool under the burn and light layers. For just a little more kick, I used the famous splatter brushes by my_wonderful, and just filled in the rest.Step Four!
Since I was inspired to make this wallpaper by the line "we sneak into his car's black leather seat/the smell of gasoline in the summer heat" from Vanessa Carlton's 'White Houses,' so I wanted to include it. I used the font face Jey from dafont.com and put my text box in the middle of the image, overlapping Dean a little bit. I was listening to my iPod at the time, and 'Brick' by Ben Folds Five came on, so I incorporated that too, using final lap and paulinho pedro azul (also from dafont.com). After I finished all of my text boxes, I merged all the layers down (layer>flatten image), and saved as a png file. And that's it!
Geez, I'm exhausted! ^.^
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is your name Summer?
Cause if it is... it's my name too hun :D
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