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Digital Darkness
This tutorial will explain how to create an effect that l like to call "Digital Darkness" It's a very nice graphic effect that can be applied to all sorts of things, such as signatures, desktop wallpapers, banner and header designs. The end result resembles a digital circuit board that truly looks fantastic.
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Create a new document of any size, for this example l will create a document that is 1024x778 - for a standard desktop background. Fill the background with black (#000000).
Create a new layer. Get out the rectangular marquee tool, and make a selection like so near the bottom left corner (region) of the canvas:
Fill this selection with the paint bucket using the color #4a4a4a.
Press CTRL + D on your keyboard to deselect the selection. And go to Filter->Distort->Wave and apply the following settings:
Tip:
Click the 'randomize' button until you get an "random" result, avoid a pattern look.
Result:
Now Press 'V' on your keyboard to get out the move tool, and position the scattered blocks near the center of the canvas.
Press CTRL + J on your keyboard to duplicate this layer.
Go to Edit->Transform->Flip Horizontally
Press CTRL + E on your keyboard to merge these two layers together.
Press CTRL + J on your keyboard again to duplicate this layer.
Go to Edit->Transform->Rotate 90 Degrees CW
Press CTRL + E on your keyboard to merge these two layers.
Result:
Double click this layer, and apply the following blending options:
Inner Glow:
Stroke:
Result:
Next get out the Dodge tool ( ) and apply the following settings:
Using these settings scribble over top of our shape a few times to create some contrast in the color as l've done here:
Next get out the Burn tool ( ) and apply the following settings:
Once again, using these settings scribble over top of our shape a few times to create some contrast in the color.
Now create a new layer below this layer (above the background), here is what your layers pallet should look like:
Now click on the topmost layer (the one with the scattered blocks) and press CTRL + E on your keyboard to merge it with the new layer we'd just created. Doing so will rasterize the layer effects we had added to the layer.
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