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How to Create Amazing Valentine’s Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use the Polygon Tool (U) to represent a hexagon of white color, set Sides to 6 in Options bar.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 18% for hexagon layer and change the Blending mode to Overlay.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make many copies of the last made layer and select the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command to change the copies’ sizes, placing theme the way from the next picture. On the copies’ sizes we must apply a different Fill value, getting the effect for the same picture below.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Put together the layers containing the hexagons in a single group (press Ctrl button when select the corresponding layers in Layers panel and press CTRL+G to Create a new group). Merge down the group in a single rasterized layer (select the group firstly and then press CTRL+E).

On the rasterzied layer we’ll apply the next filter Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the same layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (set Opacity to 30% in Options bar).

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask to hide out the hexagons the same way from the next picture.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make a copy of the recently represented layer removing the mask out of it and change on the copy’s layer the next filter Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Using the Free Transform (Ctrl+T) command on the copy’s layer, place it the same way indicated on the picture.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Add layer maskon the layer the same way described earlier and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (brush Opacity – 20%)

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask to hide out the layer content as it is represented on the next picture. Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and choose the Soft Round brush of white color.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to create many dots as it is represented below. Apply the brush of different sizes and a different Opacity value.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Insert the mask on the layer by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (set Opacity to 15% in Options bar).

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask to change the visibility of the dots as it is shown on the next picture. Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next step we’ll download set of brushes for Adobe Photoshop, named: Star Brushes by DemosthenesVoice . I would like to thank the author of these brushes, or if you prefer, you can substitute similar brushes of your own.

Copy the brushes file to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop X\Presets\Brushes folder (Adobe Photoshop X been your version of Photoshop). Little tutorial to explain how to load new brushes here.

Create a new layer, go to Brush Tool (B) and load the downloaded brushes, select the next brush:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to draw many small stars of white color to get the picture from next image.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make a copy of the earlier represented layer containing the stars and apply on the copy’s layer Fill to 50%, set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select the brush out of the earlier downloaded set of brushes to represent more stars of white color too.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Combine in a group all the layers containing the stars (press CTRL button to select the necessary layers in Layers panel and press CTRL+G to Create a new group.

Insert the mask on the stars group by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and choose the Soft Round brush of black color (set Opacity to 15% in Options bar).

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Paint in the mask to change the visibility of the stars’ group as it is represented on the next picture.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll create a new layer again and select the brush early mentioned to paint above the hearts as it is shown next image. The brush’s color is #00F695 (brush Opacity – 20%).

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Put together all the layers in a single rasterized layer (press Ctrl button to select the layers we need in Layers panel and press CTRL+E to Merge Down).

Make a copy of the rasterzied layer we’ve got. On the very first rasterzied layer apply the next filter Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp mask:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

On the second rasterzied layer we’ll apply: Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 7% for this layer and change the Blending mode to Linear Dodge.

How to Create Amazing Valentine's Day Background with Abstract Hearts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Our Amazing Valentine’s Day Background with Abstract Hearts is finished!

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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