This tutorial shows you how to create a Mac wallpaper to use on the web, desktop or any other practical use.

Create a new file with 1024×768 px and 72 dpi. The next tool

has the task to create the lowest layer of the background.

Blending Options-Bevel and Emboss

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Create now a new layer.
Mark out the earlier create one and make a right button click on the Merge Layers option.

Using the Free Transform option, turn around the layer on 90 degrees and make it look bigger uniformly, like it is shown in the next picture.

Use the next instrument

to represent a horizontal line.

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Take the next instrument

and represent a big circle.

Click then on the Alt button and continue using the last instrument to cut out a small part from the right side of the circle. Select the next tool now

to insert on the big circle, on its top and on the bottom a kind of height. The next instrument

will transform the circle into an apple.

Blending Options-Inner Shadow

Blending Options-Inner Glow

Blending Options-Bevel and Emboss

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Blending Options-Stroke

Take this tool

to represent a flare on the top of the apple.

Fill 0% on the layers.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Select the next instrument

and create a small circle, Make use of the next tool

now to change the circle into a leaf.

Blending Options-Inner Shadow

Blending Options-Inner Glow

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Blending Options-Stroke

Select again this instrument

to add on the leaf a flare too, having the white color.

Fill 80% on the layers.
Using the next tool

, draw now a small circle also, near the leaf.

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Gradient’s parameters:

Blending Options-Stroke

Make 68 copies of the new layer and then place them the way it is demonstrated in the picture below:

The final result!

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