Background Experiments with Photoshop and Illustrator

CATEGORIES: Illustrator, Photoshop, Tutorials, Video Tutorials | Dave Cross | November 07, 2008

This tutorial experiments with a current design trend of creating techno backgrounds.

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nice tute. in this tute they tech how to illustrator blend option and the other things.i also want to create like these tutes. best maxxa.

Comment by Saranga Asith | November 10, 2008 @ 6:06 am

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I learned a great deal from this, however, I could not get my brush stroke to color black. Mine showed up white and I still have no idea how to change it… Can anyone help, because I would love to finish this great tutorial.

Comment by Jo Ellen Morris | November 16, 2008 @ 7:41 pm

Hi Ellen,

All you have to do is select the arrow and assign the color from the color bar.

Comment by Sarita | November 21, 2008 @ 5:21 am

You need to make sure that your foreground color is set to black not white. Simple…..hope this helps.

Comment by Michael Thomas | November 21, 2008 @ 11:20 am

Would be nice if ads hide the downloading of tuts, in the background which are QT, so can be saved. And if available in itunes with a link.
just a comment

Comment by wallis Parnelle | November 22, 2008 @ 12:47 pm

BERY GOOD

Comment by RUSSO | November 24, 2008 @ 6:11 pm

Is there are reason my PS doesn’t have the lense flare option? It’s greyed out. I have CS3.

Comment by marina | December 10, 2008 @ 5:46 pm

hmm – does anyone know why my lens flare option would be greyed out and unavailable?

Comment by anon | December 10, 2008 @ 6:16 pm

Way too fast. I see you do it, but how do you do it?

Comment by geradji | December 18, 2008 @ 3:15 am

Hi Marina,

your document is probably not RGB mode….choose
>image>mode>RGB.

OK?

Comment by almuth | January 5, 2009 @ 9:06 am

I can’t use the brush to remove part of the arrows, it says I need to rasterize my vector smart image and then i cant edit it. Can anyone help? P.S My foreground is in black and background white, if that helps.

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wow, that was explained so well. Thanks a lot

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I am slow, and it took me a few hours to get through this as I am new to CS4 and a newbie with Photoshop, but I am happy to say, I did it and learned leaps!

Comment by Dawna Pearce | April 16, 2009 @ 11:36 pm