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How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Let’s represent now a group of circles the same way we did above. The color of each circle’s layer is the same with the one from the previous groups. Select the same Ellipse Tool (U) for the operation.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 0% for this group and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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 Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Next we’ll represent the last group of the circles. Each one must be represented on a separate layer, using the Ellipse Tool (U). The color of the circles is #FFCDCD. Set Fill to 10% for this group.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Combine in a group all the layers containing the last drawn circles (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). Set Fill to 0% for this group and click on Add a layer style icon from bottom part of the Layers panel to select Gradient Overlay.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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 Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint the background on the right lowest corner of the canvas. The brush’s color is #99FF00 and brush’s Opacity – 15%.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set the Blending mode for this layer to Overlay.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Make sure that the layer containing the brush is active in Layers panel and select for the layer the next command Image > Apply Image:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Photoshop’s Apply Image command allows us to blend layers together and gives us much more control over how the images are blended, but also opens up far more creative possibilities and gives us better overall results:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Create a new layer and select on it the Soft Round brush of white color (brush’s Opacity – 40%).

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Use this brush to paint above the circles the same way demonstrated on the next image:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Set Fill to 57% for this layer and set the Blending mode to Overlay.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Click Create new fill or adjustment layer from bottom part of the Layers panel and click to Vibrance to improve the overall color of the image.

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Now we must combine in a group all the layers (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). Select the group in Layers panel and press Ctrl+E to Merge Down. On the rasterized layer we’ve got we should apply the next filter: Filter > Sharpen > Unsharp mask

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

We’ve got the next result:

How to create Nexus 7 Background for your desktop in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Our Nexus 7 Abstract Background is finished!

View full size here.

Download free Layered PSD file.

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