Making A Marble Background With A Rainbow Multi Colored Effect
For this tutorial you will need the 'Eye Candy' filter by Alien Skin. You can get Eye Candy here
The first thing you need to do is to download and save this PSD file (link below) that you will use to make your marble background, and save it to your computer. You can use this file over and over, for lots of projects and other marbled backgrounds.
Open up the 'makemarble.psd' file
Do a 'shift' ~ 'D' to duplicate the psd file. Then close the original makemarble psd so that you preserve the original for later use for other projects. Now you will be working on the copy of the psd.
Now resize the copied psd file to a 200 x 200 pixel size
Now click on your 'Layers' Palette so you can see your layers. Note that the PSD file was saved so that you already have your two layers ready for you.
Click on the 'Color Fill' layer and right click your mouse and 'duplicate' the layer. You now have 2 color fill layers.
With the bottom layer of color fill active and your color's you want to use already chosen, fill the layer with a color, by clicking on the 'bucket' and filling with a color.
Now reverse your foreground and background colors, and click on the middle layer, 'color fill' and fill that layer with the other color.
Now go to the 'Background' layer and slide the slider down to 57 and with the dropdown menu, change it from 'Normal' to "Dissolve"
Now you have an image that looks something like the one below.
Now you want to 'merge' all of your layers. Go to "layers" / "merge" / "merge all flatten"
Now go to Image/Noise and 'Add Noise with the following settings of %Noise=66 ~ Uniform Checked and click "ok"
Next, go to Motion Blur (Image/Blur/Motion Blur) and apply with the following settings, of 98 deg. and Intensity of 10 pixels. Click OK
Now go to Eye Candy / Jiggle, and apply a "Jiggle" with the following settings of "Bubble Size" 52 ~ "Warp Amount" 22 ~ "Twist" 88 ~ "Movement Type" Brownian Motion. Click OK
Now your image looks something like this. Note the colors that have bled on the edges. We will now get rid of those to give you a nice smooth edge to your marble background.
Go to "Selections" and Select "ALL"
Now go to "Selections" and "Modify" / "Contract" and Contract by 15 pixels as shown in the next 2 illustrations
Click OK
Now you have just the inner portion of your marble background selected.
Go to "Edit" / "Copy"
Then to "Edit" / "Paste" and 'Paste as a New Image'.
Now Save your image as a jpeg and use as your background.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutrorial. If you have any questions, please feel free to email me *smile*
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