This tutorial will show you a simple method to create a futuristic wallpaper that you can use for your desktop or for any sort of web background.
Open a new file with 1280×1024 px and 72 dpi, then apply the next shown tool
to represent the file’s background.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Select after that this instrument
and try to create the lowest layer for the next logotype to be.
Blending Options-Inner Glow
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Blending Options-Stroke
Gradient’s parameters:
Take now a different instrument
and draw an element of the logotype to be, like that one shown below:
Fill 50% on the layers
Blending Options-Drop Shadow
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Select now this tool
and represent for the beginning the exterior edges of a ring, then press the Alt button and by using the previous instrument, it’s possible to cut out the inside zone of the same ring.
Blending Options-Drop Shadow
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Using the last instrument, we have to draw a flare of white color placed on the upper part of the logotype.
Fill 50% on the layers.
We have also to click on the following element shown here
and apply the next instrument
Take now the indicated tool here
and make the necessary preparedness, reserved for the one of the logotype’s elements.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Select the previous instrument after that and be ready to create another layer, that one from the image below:
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Blending Options-Stroke
Choose this tool now
and draw a usual flare of white color:
Fill 20% on the layers.
For your convenience now, merge down in a group all the layers composing this small object situated in the ring’s zone.
Now we have to make five copies of this group and place them exactly the same way it is shown in the next picture:
Select now the next tool
to represent another ring the same way we did earlier with the previous one.
First represent the exterior edges, then click on the Alt button and using the last instrument, cut out the interior zone of the ring.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Now we have to place under the logotype a kind of wide stripe. Represent it with the next tool
.
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
Place inside the already created stripe another one, applying the same instrument used before.
Blending Options-Inner Glow
Blending Options-Gradient Overlay
Gradient’s parameters:
The finished logotype should look this way!
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