New background I made

[J SPEC SilEighty]

I normally just use photoshop for cars but was just messing around with it today and I came out with this background. I thought it was pretty cool. Let me know what you think

background pic here

[MR2_Lancer]

sweet jesus! thats is friggin awesome! how the hell did you do that?

[SuPeRcAr_MaN]

Wow. It's amazing what comes out when you fool around with Photoshop for a while. Nice work.

[J SPEC SilEighty]

Thanks guys

MR2_Lancer, here's how I did it.

1. start with any size picture you want. I chose 1024X768 so I could use it for my background.

2. add some clouds by going fliter > render > clouds

3. then go to filter > pixelate > mosaic and enter anywhere between 10-20 for the amount. I chose 15.

4. Next, go to filter > blur > radial blur and set it to zoom and enter 20 for the amount.

5. filter > emboss. and set it to 135 degrees, 10 height, amount 170.

6. fliter > brush strokes > accent edges. use 2 width, 38 brightness, 5 smoothness.

7. filter > stylize > find edges

8. then push ctrl+i to invert the image.

9. filter > blur > radial blur. set to zoom and set the amount to 60.

10. push ctrl+L to bring up the levels controller. at the top you will see 3 boxes next to the words "Input Levels" in the box on the very right, enter 60.

11. filter > blur > radial blur and set to 20.

12. push ctrl+L again and in the same box that you changed in step 10, enter 200.

13. image > adjust > brightness/contrast. set contrast to 30.

14. create a new layer. fill that layer with any color you want. I chose a light blue for it. then on that layer that you just filled, set the layer option to "color" from the pull down menu on the layer box.

that should be it

[MR2_Lancer]

so basically play around with stuff til you get what you want? cool...heh. thanks