A complete tutorial on how to make this abstract wallpaper.

Open a new file that would have 1024×768 px and 72 dpi. Then make use of this instrument

to represent the lowest background of the file.

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Selecting the previous instrument, we have to draw now an inclined stripe, colored in 10161C.

on the layers we should have

Represent the same way several other stripes, having the same color, but a different width.

Choose the following tool and try to represent the next figure that you see here, having 4×4 px and the color – 4F4F4F.

Save it!

Create a new layer now with 1024×768 px and 72 dpi, mark it out and select the next instrument

to stretch out the marked zone along its edges, using also the right button of the mouse inside the marked layer – Fill.
Choose from the “Fill” menu we entered the saved earlier figure and start applying it.

Take the following instrument

and create the lowest layer of the logotype. Choosing the next instrument

, it’s possible to make the corrections on the layer’s shapes.

Fill 0% on the layers.
Blending Options-Drop Shadow

Blending Options-Inner Glow

The next tool

will be helpful in representing a flare on the lowest layer of the logotype.

Fill 0% on the layers.
Set the Opacity on 40% and take after that a brush with blurred edges and white color to make the necessary nuance’s correction on our picture.

Select the next instrument

to represent one more layer of the logotype, the same way we’ve represented its lowest layer.

Fill 0% on the layers.
Blending Options-Inner Glow

Blending Options-Bevel and Emboss

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Make use again of the next tool

to draw another flare on the second logotype’s layer. Its color should be A8ACAF.

On the layers we have

The last features include finding an appropriate clipart and place it the same way it is shown in the picture below:

This is the final picture!

View full size here.