Learn in this tutorial how to design awesome wallpaper.

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The next lesson I’ll tell you how is it possible to represent interesting wallpapers for the desktop. For the beginning we have to create a new file (File>New) with 1280х1024px and 72dpi. Choose next a picture on your own wish, having represented on it the ocean’s littoral or the sea – coast and insert it on the created file already.

Create a new layer and press the next combination of buttons: Shift+Ctrl+U for the picture to get a black and white nuance.

We have to raise the contrast a little, which is why we’ll need the Curves Dialog Box for changing contrast and brightness.
Press on the next buttons’ combination Ctrl+M and set everything the way it is shown next picture:

The picture from below is the primary result we should get:

Find in Internet any hieroglyphs you like:

Using the Color Range option, provoked when pressing the right mouse’s button, we may get the picture from below. We’ll get a marking and then press the button’s Delete for the white background to disappear:

Next the cut out hieroglyphs must be inserted on the picture:

The hieroglyphs’ layer should get the next layer’s parameters:

It’s the next result we should get:

Next step includes creating a new layer and use on it the Gradient Tool (G) to make the layer look, like the next picture indicates it:

Enter the next options Filter>Texture>Grain… to set the parameters, shown below:

Apply the next parameters for this layer too:

That is what we should get:

Choose now the Pen Tool (P) and try to represent four rays, having the color #FFFFCC

Set the next parameters for this layer:

It’s what we get at this stage:

Select after that the Rectangle Tool (U) and apply it on the whole page. We’ll also set the adjustments in the Blending Options>Gradient Overlay.

Select the same parameters indicated below for this layer:

The next picture is what we get now:

Select the option shown below from the lowest layers’ palette: