In this tutorial, we will create a modern cool looking multicoloured wallpaper. Though it's a tutorial for wallpaper design, but can be successfully used

for many other applications like fliers, posters, postcards and a host of other stationery and desktop publishing designs.

Create the new document of any size.  We used a 640 x 480 pixels size.

Start by using any busy background.  It can be any background with some colours and random designs on it.  We used an abstract background to start with.

Create a rectangle using rectangular shape tool.  Then press Ctrl+T and rotate the rectangle by a few degrees.  Similarly create more rectangles and rotate as shown below.

Create a new layer.  Use custom shape tool and from the Preset shapes fly out menu at the options bar on top chooses a "registration target 2 shape".

Create the shape by pressing shift as shown below.

Select rectangular shape tool.

Click intersect shape areas from the top.

Create a rectangle over the shape as shown below. Using path selection tool, click rectangle and rotate it by pressing Ctrl+T. Make sure you rotate the rectangle so that it fit the yellow rectangle perfectly or for better and precise control you can use direct selection tool and click on the particular nodes and make them a fit on the corners of the yellow rectangle.

From layer palette changed layer mode to soft light.

Repeat the procedure for all the rectangles.

Insert an image where you have a few silhouettes of dancing girls.

Press Ctrl+J to duplicate the layer. Rotate the layer so that it looks like a mirror reflection.

Reduce the Reduce the opacity to 29% .

From bottom of the layer palette click on "Add vector mask". Press D to reset the foreground and background colors to default B&W. Select gradient tool. Apply in linear mode to create a soft blend.

Similarly insert a few images of cowboys and apply same masking as we did with the girls silhouette image.

Take another abstract image and place it below the layer containing registration target 2 layer.

Change the layer mode to lighten in layer palette.

Move the layer order in layer palette so that it's below the girls image layer.

Repeat the step with another abstract layer.  Place it over another rectangle and play around with the layer mode.

You can type in some text of your choice to complete the wallpaper.

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psaddict   |217.216.244.xxx |2009-01-31 04:33:07 Added to www.psaddict.com Reply | Quote 1   0

Juan   |200.77.45.xxx |2009-01-31 15:58:08 Don't like it srry Reply | Quote 0   0

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Business Cards   |203.82.41.xxx |2009-04-02 20:36:15 It would be nice if you provided the links to your source images. Cool tutorial though, the techniques you used here can be applied to other projects as well. Thanks! Reply | Quote 0   0

amber   |69.38.103.xxx |2009-04-15 10:31:13 this was horrible your instructions get cut off on the right Reply | Quote 0   0

Rajeesh   |123.238.101.xxx |2009-04-20 12:43:04 Its not an easy steps. Very diificult to follow. Reply | Quote 0   0

photo retouching  - tut   |212.122.112.xxx |2009-05-15 04:48:38 great result, thanks for sharing. Reply | Quote 0   0

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