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).
Paint using this brush to make lighter some canvas’s parts:
Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.
Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush of black color (Opacity – 20%).
Paint using this brush to make darker the canvas’s edges:
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.
We’ve got the next result:
Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Hue/Saturation.
Drag the slider to the left to decrease the Hue value of the color range.
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.
We’ve got the next result:
Make a copy of the recently made rasterzied layer and choose for the copy the next filter: Filter>Blur>Motion blur:
We’ve got the next result:
Set the Blending mode for this layer to Saturation.
Create a new layer and select the Soft Mechanical brush of black color (Opacity – 20%).
Use this brush to represent several shadows
Create a new layer again and select the Soft Round brush of white (Opacity – 20%).
Use this brush to paint the top part of the canvas.
Set Fill to 63% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Overlay.
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Download free Layered PSD file.
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