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How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and represent many small dots. This time we’ll use the Hard Round brush of white color and apply it with different diameters and different Opacity value.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Place the layer under the shapes’ ones.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer again and take the Soft Round brush to paint in yellow the bottom part of the canvas (Opacity – 20%).

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Place the layer under the shapes’ ones.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Screen.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create the next new layer and apply the Soft Round brush of white color to represent several small dots of different diameters.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

This layer should be positioned above the shapes’ layers in Layers panel.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and apply the Soft Round brush to paint the left bottom corner.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

The brush’s color is black (brush Opacity – 15%).

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Choose the Pen Tool (P), set the drawing mode on Shape Layers in Options bar and draw the next shape as shown.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel and select Drop Shadow.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Add Inner Shadow:

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Apply Gradient Overlay:

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Click in the color bar to open the Gradient Editor and set the color stops as shown. Click OK to close the Gradient Editor dialog box.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

We’ve got the next result:

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Using the Rectangle Tool (U), we’ll represent a vertical rectangle of white color.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set Fill to 32% for this layer and set the Blending mode to Overlay.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Using the same tool, we may draw many vertical rectangle of different width. The Fill and Blending mode for the layers are the same with the last made line. Those three rectangles on the right side have the Fill value of 62%.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Combine in a group all the layers composing the rectangles (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).

Insert the mask on the group by choosing Add layer mask on the bottom part of the Layers panel and press CTRL+I to Inverse the color, select white color for Foreground color. Using the Pen Tool (P) in the mask, we may draw an area where the rectangles will be visible.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Create a new layer and select the Soft Round brush from Brush Tool (B).

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Use this brush to paint the canvas on the right side with the color #9AFFC6 (brush Opacity – 30%)

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Color Burn.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Using the applied before Pen Tool (P), we may draw a shape of black color.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Using the same tool, we’ll represent a shape of the color #56ADBE.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Then insert a small shape of the color #FFFDC0, using the Pen Tool (P) too.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Mac OS) and click between the layer containing the blue shape and the layer with the yellow line in Layers panel to create a clipping mask.

How to Create Colorful Flowing Lines Abstract Vector Background in Adobe Photoshop CS5

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