Creating an Apple Wallpaper
Tutorial in Basics, Designing, Drawing, Effects, Goodies, In Photos, In Text, Various
There are now 3 tutorials in Design Owners with the Apple theme. It’s been a long time since I published the last Apple-themed wallpaper, so I was thinking about adding a new one one of these days, and it is today! We will learn to create another Apple wallpaper. It will be necessary for you to have the Adobe Illustrator CS2 installed.
Open a new document, 1024×768px, and transparent background.
Fill it in color #C3823E.
Apply ((Filter))-((Noise))-((Add Noise)).
Then ((Filter))-((Blur))-((Motion Blur)).
Press Ctrl + T to activate ((Free Transform)) and extend the background to the left and the to the right.
Double click the layer to open ((Layer Styles)) and apply ((Gradient Overlay)).
Accept the changes.
Before going on with the next step, you will have to download the file Apple.ai that has the shape and colors of “the Apple”.
Once you have downloaded it, open it in Adobe Illustrator.
Select the entire apple and press Ctrl + C to copy it.
Go back to the Photoshop document.
Press Ctrl + V and you will see a pop up that asks you to choose the type of paste. Choose “Pixels”.
Then select ((Polygonal Lasso Tool)) and trace the apple leave (as shown in the image below), right click the selection and choose ((Layer Via Cut)). You will cut, copy, and paste the selection into a new layer.
The apple and the leaf will be in separated layers.
Double click the apple layer to open ((Layer Styles)) and apply ((Stroke)). The colors you will use for this gradient: #B4B4B4 and #FFFFFF.
Accept the changes.
Move the leaf a few pixels upwards so that it’s not very close to the apple.
Double click the layer and apply ((Drop Shadow)).
Accept the changes.
Choose black as the foreground color.
Select the font Motter Tektura and write the Apple text with the values that appear below. If you don’t have the said font, download it by clicking this LINK.
Now press Ctrl + T to activate ((Free Transform)) and rotate the text until it looks like this.
Stand int he text layer and go to ((Layer))-((Layer Style))-((Blending Options)).
((Drop Shadow)).
((Stroke)).
Accept the changes.
Finally, you will have to fix the holes that appear in the letter “a”.
Create a ((New Layer)).
Select ((Polygonal Lasso Tool)) and create a selection as the one that appears below.
Choose white as the foreground color.
Now with ((Brush Tool)), 50px, and ((hardness)): 50%, paint the selection with white.
Deselect (Ctrl + D).
Done!
