by Bhanu Ahluwalia

Designing wallpapers in Photoshop is mostly admired among designers. And why shouldn’t it be? You are free to decorate your desktop any way you like. You can go for abstract, nature, typography, simple, contemporary or any other style you want. Besides this, designing wallpapers is also a fulfilled way to master new techniques. Today’s post provides you a compilation of the techniques available in Photoshop; for beginners as well as for experts! So take your time and have a look at these tutorials — and take your creativity to the next level!

Save the Planet Wallpaper Concept — In this tutorial, all you will need is a picture of an apple and one of the earth; merging them together makes an interesting wallpaper concept.

Creating a Simple yet Creative Graphic Typography Wallpaper Design — This tutorial helps you create a simple but creative graphic typography wallpaper.

How to Make a Simple Green Wallpaper in Photoshop — In this tutorial, you can see how a simple green wallpaper is made using Photoshop.

Duality Wallpaper — This DUALITY wallpaper is inspired by an amazing fractal freeware called ContextFree.

Mother Nature Artistic Wallpaper Design — Easy techniques to make an artistic mother nature design wallpaper using Photoshop.

Create an Intensely Grungy Wallpaper — In this tutorial, the artist shows you how to create an intensely grungy wallpaper.

Forest Fairy Wallpaper — In this tutorial, the artist shows you how to make a Forest Fairy Wallpaper.

Creating nice wallpapers for your desktop — Here the artist has made a beautiful apple wallpaper and shares the technique with us.

Creating a Very Shiny Summer Wallpaper — Learn how to create shiny summer wallpapers.

Creating A Final Fantasy XIII Wallpaper — Wallpaper inspired by the game “Final Fantasy XIII”.

The Screamusic Wallpaper Tutorial — Simple techniques to help your creativity.

Creating a Wallpaper Based on Making of the Logo — This tutorial will show you how the creation of a logo can help you create the rest of the elements of the corporate style and even into a wallpaper.

How to Make a Wallpaper — Here you can make a wallpaper using produced custom brushes, colour gradients and non-standard fonts with Photoshop as a main application.

Creating A Graffiti Car Wallpaper — Here you can learn how to create a graffiti wallpaper for a hot looking car.

Create an Astonishing Soccer Desktop Wallpaper Using Photoshop — In this tutorial, the artist will be creating a very simple but nice looking desktop wallpaper.

Matte Painting Wallpaper — In this tutorial, we will make a fast matte painting wallpaper. Matte painting is actually based on a photo with different hand painted elements.

Stunning Abstract Wallpaper Design — This tutorial shows you some simple ways using the pen and brush tools to create a really cool abstract wallpaper.

Making of nine and venue wallpaper — In this tutorial, the artist shows you how to make a nine and venue wallpaper.

Create an Abstract Wallpaper for World Cup 2010 — This tutorial will show how to create an abstract glowing background using the various brushes and warp transformation tool.

Create a Futuristic Abstract Wallpaper — In this tutorial, the author shows you how you can use filters to create wallpapers with abstraction in futuristic style.

Graphic Wallpaper: Hit-Girl — In this project walkthrough the artist shows you the different techniques that went into creating a graphic featuring the show-stealer Hit-Girl.

Clash of the Titans: Medusa — The Gorgon Queen Medusa is back in the Clash of the Titans; here the artist felt very inspired and so has created a wallpaper of Medusa.

Creating Avatar Movie Wallpaper — Here is an interesting tutorial how to create an Avatar movie wallpaper.

Desktop Wallpaper Calendar February 2010 — Here the artist has created this wallpaper calander keeping Valentine’s Day in mind.

How to Create an Abstract Colourful Background with Bokeh Effect in Photoshop — In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an abstract colorful background using the bokeh effect and the rest of Photoshop’s drawing tools, blending modes, and lighting techniques.

If This is Your First Night of Fight Club… — Here you can learn the techniques on how to make a gritty fight wallpaper.

Create a Fantastic Grayscale Wallpaper in Photoshop — In this tutorial, the artist explains how to create a fantastic grayscale wallpaper in Photoshop.

Creating Your Own Custom Gaming Wallpaper — In this tutorial, you can create your own Super Paper Mario Wallpaper.

How To Draw Mother And Baby Turtle Wallpaper — This tutorial shows you how to make a lovely mother and baby turtle wallpaper.

The Warrior Angel — Here’s a walkthrough of the creation of a wallpaper featuring a mystical warrior angel.

Quick And Dirty Space Monitor — In this tutorial, the artist has created his own custom Space Monitor Display.

Creating a Celebrity Wallpaper — Learn how to create a celebrity wallpaper.

Wall-E Cartoon Style Wallpaper — You must have watched Wall-e movie. This tutorial shows you how to make it immortal as a wallpaper.

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1. Avatar Wallpaper Tutorials

2.Chroma wallpapers

3.Glowing extreme wallpaper

4.Retro sunflower design

5.Creating typography wallpaper

6.Creating an abstract watercolor wallpaper

7.Smoke effect on grungy wallpaper

8.Awesome digital bokeh effect wallpaper

9.Create an intensely grungy wallpaper

10.Create a funky wallpaper

11.Futuristic computer wallpaper

12.Linux operating system desktop wallpaper

13.Touching story scene in photoshop

14.Vector wallpaper tutorial

15.Valentine wallpaper

16.Design a grunge car wallpaper

17.Animated Rainbow Wallpaper

18.Floating island scene similar to avatar

19.Retro pop style wallpaper

20.Creating an ecological fairy tale wallpaper

21.Create fantasy wallpaper in photoshop

22.Design a surreal desert scene

23.Seacoast wallpaper

24.Ford Mustang Wallpaper

25.Summer camp wallpaper

26.The screamusic wallpaper tutorial

27.Windows Vista wallpaper

28.Using some free stuff create wallpaper

29.Water drops on a spider web

30.Wallpaper with logo

31.Calendar wallpaper

32.Create an awesome music wallpaper

33.Design a halloween pumpkin wallpaper

34.Retro grunge apple wallpaper

35.Theatrical scene using cute animal icons

36.Fleetwood Mac Wallpaper

37.Pepper Wallpaper

38.Full Moon in The Midnight Forest

39.Designing a Diving Wallpaper

40.Microsoft Windows Vista Wallpaper

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By Janos Racz

Abstract works have many uses in design: they can serve as a vibrant desktop background, a mysterious webdesign header or they can be beautiful art pieces by themselves. What’s more, abstract design has many forms, and not too many limitations. You can always come up with new shapes and compositions with combination of various color schemes. You can create them using computer algorithms, putting it on the canvas from pure imagination, or just following a simple pattern you made up in your spare time.

But once you have an idea, it’s always good to know how to actually implement those to get the desired results. This collection of abstract design tutorials will hopefully able to introduce you to some of the skills and techniques commonly used when creating such pieces of artwork and design elements. Enjoy!

Useful Abstract Photoshop Tutorials

Chroma Wallpapers
The article shows how to make a great abstract composition combining a 3D-looking base with some additional effects.

Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper Design
This wavy abstract design is brought to you buy Fabio Sasso, featured on PSDTuts. With only 16 steps to complete, this is a fun, quick and easy tutorial for everyone!

How to Create Brilliant Light Streaks in Photoshop
Various lightning effects are important parts of almost every absract design. This tutorial shows you how to use various filters to achieve a nice circular lightning effect and create this stunning image below!

Windows Vista Aurora Effect Photoshop Tutorial
Tutorials on re-creating certain popular and commonly used effects are always popular. This tutorial takes a good look at creating the Windows Vista aurora effect and walks you through step-by-step.

Leopard Aurora Borealis Photoshop Tutorial
Speaking about popular effects, here’s a nice Mac OSX Leopard-style wallpaper tutorial from DesignNerd.

Luminescent Lines
Luminescent Lines is another quick and fun tutorial on creating abstract lines and coloring them nicely with layer styles and the use of some brushes.

Making of an Abstract Art Piece: “Lonium”
This article is more of a making-of than a tutorial, where the author walks you through the most important phases of creating this amazing abstract artwork. An interesting read nonetheless with lots of ideas for future designs.

Creating Smoke
This tutorial illustrates a quick way to create smoke-like effects with the liquify filter that’ll surely come in handy for many abstract designs.

Lines Tutorial
A quick and simple tutorial for creating a nice colorful effect, brought to you by Giackop Design.

Creating an Abstract 3D Design
A bit longer and more difficult tutorial to create the image below. If you have the time though, certainly give it a shot!

Awesome digital bokeh effect in Photoshop
Bokeh effects are becoming more and more popular nowadays. This tutorial illustrates one way to achieve such an effect in a colorful composition.

Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a mac-style desktop background using custom selections and gradients.

Abstract Tutorial
A stunnig lightning effect merging complex shapes using various brushes.

Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop
This tutorial with the beautiful outcome below is brought to you yet again by Fabio Sasso. It uses multiple techniques from other tutorials to create this piece that was once used as Abduzeedo’s footer.

Swirl Mania in Illustrator & Photoshop
With a little work in Adobe Illustrator, this tutorial guides you through the process of creating this lively abstract piece.

Light Rays
Another cool lightning effect that combines a great number of filters to achive the final effect.

Abstract Background Photoshop Tutorial
Yet another abstract lightning effect for those who still want more!

Signature Backgrounds
This tutorial walks you through creating this abstract image that you can commonly see in forum signatures.

Colorful Tornado
Another great abstract artwork tutorial by 9Tutorials, this time not so chaotic!

Colourful Swirl
This tutorial shows you how to create then combine multiple swirl effects to achieve the result below.

Make Abstract Wallpaper with Brushes
This tutorial featured on 10Steps.sg shows you the steps to create an amazing piece of abstract artwork using various brushes as a base.

Starfield Tileable Twitter Background Tutorial
If you’re in need of a cool new twitter background right now, this tutorial is just for you! And if not, it will still give you some ideas and techniqes that you can use in your future works for tilable abstract patterns.

Abstract Visual Effect
The effect below would look just as great as a desktop background as an artwork by itself, but you’ll find in the tutorial that it’s not as complicated as it looks. Make sure you click “next” to read the rest of the tutorial

Abstract art wallpaper
A great tutorial specifically about abstract wallpaper creation, with a nice result.

Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper
Yet another Vista-style wallpaper tutorial, a different style this time.

Creating a Stunning Digital Smoke Effect
Although the title suggests smoke effect, this tutorial is another great step-by-step guide on abstract design.

Trendy galactic poster design
A trendy poster nonetheless, a nice colorful background with some typography, though the first part is what you shold be more interested in abstract-design-wise.

Create a Rather Interesting, Wavy and Curving Abstract Shape Effect in Photoshop
This tutorial walks you through the creation of this rather interesting and colorful shape. Very detailed, with lots of screenshots.

Design Eye-catching Laser Particle Abstract Effect in Photoshop
These kind of images are what you can usually see in online galleries at the abstract 3D section, but this tutorial shows you how to create a nice laser particle effect right in Photoshop, without the use of any 3D applications!

How to Create an Interplay of Abstract Light Streaks
Lastly, a tutorial about this interesting and quite complex abstract image from PSDTuts with a few more new techniques to learn!

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Christmas is a great time for designers to explore new techniques and come up with some festive compositions. I’ve hand selected 20 great tutorials to help you push your creative talents this season. Learn how to create Christmas designs, including wallpapers, christmas cards, icons and more!

(All images link to the original tutorial.)

Design an Awesome Tree in Photoshop

Draw a Header for a Christmas Greetings Template

Create a Beautiful Christmas Card

Make a Nice and Creative Christmas Card Using Photoshop

Creating a Contemporary Christmas Wallpaper

Make a Sketchy Wallpaper for this Christmas

Design a Simple Illustration for Christmas

How to Create a Christmas Card in Photoshop

How to Create and Decorate a Christmas Tree in Photoshop

Creating a Multinational Christmas Wallpaper

Christmas Balls Tutorials

Design Christmas Card with Tree Balls

We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Wallpaper Tutorial)

Christmas Glass Balls Drawing Lesson

Drawing Unique Christmas Decorations

Create a Christmas Card – Awesome in Night Scene

Christmas Star Decoration

Swirly Christmas Tree

Christmas Ball Decoration

Christmas Wrapped Text Effect

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One of the best ways to enhance your Photoshop skills is by creating wallpapers in Photoshop. Giving a shot to the below tutorials will help you to learn new Photoshop techniques. Creating wallpaper in Photoshop is always fun and best way to learn new techniques. Most of these wallpaper tutorials have PSD source file which can be very helpful with your designs.

These are some of the awesome tutorials in creating wallpapers using Photoshop on the Web.

Here are 55 tutorials that can help you to learn new photoshop tricks with these wallpaper tutorials.

1. The ‘Creativity’ Wallpaper

2. Beautiful Rainbow Island Wallpaper

3. Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

4. Stylish Minimalistic Wallpaper

5. Create A Glowing Extreme Wallpaper

6. Abstract Watercolor Wallpaper

7. Fire Dragon

8. Abstract Color Wallpaper

9. Water drops on a spider web

10. Distant Desert City Scene

11. Arctic Monkeys

12. Large sprite piece

13. Screamusic Wallpaper

14. ‘Colour’ Wallpaper Tutorial

15. Floral Text Wallpaper

16. HD Color Lines Wallpaper

17. Typographic Wallpaper

18. Music Wallpaper Montage

19. Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

20. Passing of Spring

21. Awesome Music Wallpaper

22. Transformers Movie Wallpaper

23. Retro Wallpaper

24. Texas Rangers desktop wallpaper

25. Retro Apple Wallpaper

26. Sunflower Wallpaper

27. Summer breeze wallpaper

28. Intensely Grungy Wallpaper

29. March 2009 Calendar Wallpaper

30. Watchmen Movie Wallpaper

31. Japanese Style Wallpaper

32. Michael Jackson Wallpaper

33. Diablo III styled wallpaper

34. Picture Vintage

35. Color Variations

36. Urban Koenigsegg CCX wallpaper

37. Luminescent Lines

38. Theatrical Scene Wallpaper

39. Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

40. Diving

41. Night Before Christmas

42. Beautiful Christmas Vision

43. Grunge Car Wallpaper

44. Atlantic Snowfall Wallpaper

45. Valentines Wallpaper

46. Chroma Wallpapers

47. Ford Mustang GT500 – Abstract design

48. Extreme Grunge Wallpaper

49. Decorating Text

50. Iron Man movie wallpaper

51. Fantastic Sunset Wallpapers Effects

52. Animated Rainbow Wallpaper

53. Impressive Photo’s Background

54. Abstract 3D Design Wallpaper

55. Floral Abstract Wallpaper

Which one of these tutorials you like the most? Share your thoughts and opinions in the comments!

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