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Butterfly’s Abstract Wallpaper

How to create a nice abstract background for all your work.

Open a new file that would have 1280×1024 px and 72 dpi. Then make use of this tool to create the primary background’s layer of the picture to be next.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Blending Options-Gradient Overlay

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Gradient’s parameters:

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

The next instrument will be helpful in drawing a circle on our picture.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS
Fill 0% on the layers.
Blending Options-Stroke

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Make thirty copies of the recently made layer and apply the Free Transform selection to minimize the copies or to enlarge them. Place them the way it is shown on the picture.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Select the next tool to represent a part of the ornament we want to fill the picture with. It must have the next color – FF7E00.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Using the same instrument, represent one more ornament’s element, colored this time in FF9B39.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Choose the last applied instrument and try to represent a thin stripe having the next color – FFB772.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Choose a different tool now that will be helpful in selecting the cliché of butterfly shape we need from the table below.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Represent a butterfly colored in F6550F that must be turned over, applying Free Transform selection.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Copy this new made layer sixty times. Using the Free Transform selection, it’s possible to change the parameters of the copies. Turn them over on a certain angle.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Create now thirty-six copies of the same butterfly, colored with F9D39A. Select again the Free Transform option to correct the copies’ sizes and their level of turning.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Create now fifty-seven copies of the butterfly, colored this time in F4A44 and apply the same Free Transform option for the same operation we did earlier.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

Using the same method, represent now thirty-nine copies of the mentioned butterfly and color them out in DE7219.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

On the last stage, we have to represent 15 copies of the same butterfly, colored with F1CA73. The Free Transform option will help us to make the corrections on the sizes and their placement.

Create Butterfly's Abstract Wallpaper in Photoshop CS

The illustration is finished!

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