[Tutorial]Design a Colorful Wallpaper

I recently found this beautiful wallpaper and I tried to understand how it was made.

I found this tutorial but the special effects values and color codes mentioned are not same and also it is lengthy tutorial so I played with the settings and colors codes and finally got something that is closer to the original wallpaper.

Note: I will guide you only about the background colors. The text on the wallpaper is not covered in this tutorial.

1. Create a new document (1024×768) and fill the background layer with Black Color (#000000)

2. Create a new layer, Press G to apply Gradient and fill the new layer with White(#FFFFFF) to Transparent (Top to Bottom). Be sure the Transparent Gradient option is selected as shown in the image below;

Now you should have something like this

3. Now go to Filter > Distort > Wave and use this setting

After applying this effect you should have something like this

Now move the gradient layer up a little to hide the white shining space, as shown in the image below;

4. Go to Layers > Layer Style > Gradient Overlay and apply gradient with these colors values

#010101 #1a321d #556e2b #92942a #c5ac40 #dab154 #e48a36
#a03b1e #e25133 #e13e2b #e87372 #7d101f #e53d64 #d2186b #ca6cad #6b1770 #2b215c #0f3058 #0e1d25

After applying gradient you should have result like this

Now the colors we have got so far will be looking a little dull from the original so to give them a shine you can do this.

a) create a new layer
b) apply gradient from white to transparent
c) set the layer blend mode as “Overlay”
d) lower the opacity up to 50% to 60%

And you will see a shine on the colors now.

5. After that you can erase the center area a little with Erase Tool and put text in there.

And you are done

You can see my wallpaper here.

Please try this tutorial and let me know if you are having any problem. I will try to help you.