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Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of white color (set Opacity to 30% in Options bar).

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Paint using this brush to make lighter some canvas’s parts:

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity – 20%).

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Paint using this brush to make darker the canvas’s edges:

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Curves to adjust the curve shape as shown to make a little color corrections.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Hue/Saturation.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Drag the slider to the left to decrease the Hue value of the color range.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Combine in a group all the layers containing the lines (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers and hold on the left mouse’s button while dragging the selected layers on Create a new group icon from bottom part of the Layers panel). The new group will be rasterized. In this case select the group, press CTRL+E to Merge Down and apply on the rasterized layer the next filter: Filter>Blur>Motion blur.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Make a copy of the recently made rasterzied layer and choose for the copy the next filter: Filter>Blur>Motion blur:

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Saturation.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Mechanical brush of black color (Opacity – 20%).

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to represent several shadows

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer again and select the Soft Round brush of white (Opacity – 20%).

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint the top part of the canvas.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 63% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Overlay.

Create bright abstract diagonal lines background in Photoshop CS5

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