Textured Background

Definitions are brought to the top level, making this easy to handle. Picking the main color and the color of a foreground are individual but there’s a few tips on how to make it vivid.

And here is another short tutorial on creating a textured background. Though not very complex or hard, sometimes you just need a background but nothing else seems to fit. Use this textured background as a base and build upon it or just use the background without changing anything on it.

Step 1. Pick a color to base this background on. Try not to go with your typical colors – what I mean is: don’t go green, instead go dark green (for example). In fact, for this tutorial I think I’ll go with a dark green.





Now that you have your selected color chosen as your foreground color, with your layer selected, press “Alt + Backspace”.



Step 2. Now first, reflect upon that screenshot you are looking at right now or look at you own document. Flat colors are extremely…disgusting. Let’s fill the layer with a radial gradient. With your foreground the same, choose the background (eyedrop the foreground then just lower the brightness, essentially).



Make sure you have the following gradient settings…



Now apply…



Step 3. With your colors still selected, duplicate the layer and then go to Filter > Render > Fibers…. Man, I always loved that look. Drop the variance and strength down to “10” and “3” respectively.



Finally, drop the layer opacity down to 30% or so.

Step 4. It is still looking too plain. To liven it up a bit, duplicate this “fibered” layer and apply a Filter > Sketch > Water Paper. Fiber length to something like 15, and leave brightness and contrast alone.



Step 5. Make sure the layer we just applied the water paper filter to is set at around 30% opacity and then to highlight any areas (such as where your artwork or logo will go on top of this background), get out the brush tool.

With a 125px but 0% hardness brush (white foreground), draw a sort of loose zig zag or whatever shape you like. Do this on a new layer, by the way.



Now lower the opacity to 11% and then set the layer style to “Screen”.



There, we’re finished!


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