Diablo III styled wallpaper
September 11th, 2008 by ART-D Posted in Adobe Photoshop, Designing
In this detailed tutorial we will learn how to make a Diablo III styled wallpaper.
For the beginning create a new file (File>New) of 1280×1024 px and 72 dpi. Paint the first layer with black color, applying the Paint Bucket Tool (G).
Now, let’s start making a very gloomy texture. Download out of Internet a set of ready to use brushes D_Grungeset1.
In this case we’ll use all the brushes, except the marked one in the table below. The color’s code is #532100. Brush’s Opacity needs to be on 20%.
We must get almost the same thing as on the picture below:
Choose now a brush as in the next table. We’ll use it during the entire lesson.
On a new layer we’ll try to represent the blue color – #04020F. Opacity:20%.
Enlarge the brush’s size by pressing Ctrl +] and try to represent one more layer of the same color.
On the next layer the brush needs to be enlarged even more, changing the Opacity on 40% and trying to get the same result as below:
Select the white color, Opacity of 10% and represent an element remembering the clouds.
Set the next parameters on the layers’ palette.
Select the black color and the same opacity’s value to create a dark haziness on the top part of the picture.
Create a new file of 500x500px and 72 dpi, painting it in black color.
Select the Gradient Tool (G) on a new layer for giving it the white gradient. Select on the top gradient’s menu the option Foreground to transparent, having a picture, like the next one.
Next select the main menu Filter>Distort>Wave…, setting the options from below 




























Nimol
25/08/2009
G8 design.I luv it.
Koji@ ebook cover software
20/09/2009
Very nice Post! Really love it your post! thank you very much for your Information
Akin
30/10/2009
Thank you so much , i luv the design, this is the first Ps tutorial i’v completed without getting lost on the way. thanx once again, (dunno y all other tutorials tend to miss few steps and expect you to continue and get almost the same results.
mxv
22/05/2010
IN page 1, i can’t follow u when u say “Next select the main menu Filter>Distort>Wave…, setting the options from below”. When I select this menu, it’s disable to select. Why?
Ly P.
20/01/2011
Great tut, it was kind of confusing in the end, it took me a longer time to get it, but anyway, luv it <3
H3F
03/02/2011
Ok… I just couldn’t do it. I got a headache. I follow all the steps, over and over again, and I can’t get the same results.
I would like to contact the autor, but I didn’t find any adress.
So, if anyone could send me a .psd file with this work finished, I would be so glad. (I want it to change the text. You know, for making a sing for a forum).
I hope someone read this!
By the way, my mail adress is: happytreefoe@hotmail.com
Please, send me a .psd file with this work finished, or just contact me for helping me a little.
Thanks for reading!
Uno123gorl
11/10/2011
i can´t see the font ;(
Rao_Fani
17/06/2012
i want kiss your hands…………………….
thanks this tutorial i like it very much…..
i learn hear a lot.