Waves Tutorial
This tutorial will show you how to make awesome waves that you might often see in site layouts. Read to do it!
What you need
>> Photoshop CS (or version 2 or three or Photoshop 7 or higher or lower)
>> A good knowledge of Photoshop
>> You!
1- Open your new file in Photoshop. Color the background. Make a new layer and Select the "Polygonal Lasso Tool" (it's under the rectangle marquee tool). Make a triangle on the side at the edge of the page, then fill it with a color. This is what it's supposed to look like:
2- Next, go filter --> Distort --> Wave. A box will pop up, set the things below:
Number Of Generators: 4
Wavelength Min: 1
Wavelength Maximum: 169
Amplitude Min: 6
Amplitude Max: 48
Scale Horizontal: 100
Scale Vertical: 88
Click Ok and it should look like this:
3- Right click the wave layer and click "Blending Options" Select Bevel and Emboss and follow below:
Style: Inner Bevel
Technique: Smooth
Depth: Change as much as you want
Direction: Up
Size: Change as much as you want
Soften: Change as much as you want
Shading Angle: 90 degrees
Change all Opacity in shading to 100 degrees
Finally, click ok. Then, you can duplicate the layer to make cooler designs.
Here is what I got:
You can even add cool brushes! I added and here is what I got:
If you have any questions, e-mail me at atyome@hotmail.com ^-^