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Skateboarding Club Wallpaper

Create a new layer where we shall use the brushes out of the downloaded set, entitled flowefusionphotoshopbrushes, inserting one more ornament on the picture. The brushes have black color and #80663F

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Next we’ll represent a voluminous flower, applying for the beginning the next indicated brush on a new layer (Create new layer), marking also its placement on the picture. The brush’s color is #FFECAE

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Create again a new layer that must be situated lower than the previous one where we shall apply a standard brush of white color. This way we’ll outline the flower along its contour and inside, giving it the white color.

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Select the next shown parameters for the layer containing the white brush: Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Blending Options>Gradient Overlay

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4Gradient’s parameters:

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Next step we’ll rasterize the layer containing the effects. We need in this case to create a new layer, place it above the recently made one, then press CTRL button for marking them out and finally press CTRL+E. On the rasterized layer we’ll apply the Burn Tool (O) and the Dodge Tool (O) to dark out several zones or make them lighter on the picture.

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

CombineĀ into a group all the layers containing the voluminous flower (press Ctrl button to mark out the necessary layers and then hold on the left mouse’s button while moving the marked layers on Create a new group selection). Make two copies of the made group and use the Free Transform option for changing the copies’ sizes, placing them the same way demonstrated below:

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Next we’ll add the text on our picture, keeping the demands inserted in the table below (I used this font from dafont.com):

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

The layer’s parameters: Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Blending Options>Outer Glow

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Blending Options>Inner Glow

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Blending Options>Stroke

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Insert a photo with a skateboarder (I used this picture from Flickr. I would like to thank the author of this picture):

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Cut out his figure and put it on the picture:

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Choose these parameters for the layer with the skateboarder on it: Blending Options>Drop Shadow

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

Make an artistic wallpaper in Adobe Photoshop CS4

This is the final result!

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