Dots tutorial

I did this one fairly simply for a PS support group question. REALLY LARGE

 

1. I filled the bottom layer with a blue gradient ( I did fancier stuff to with grain and motion blur but ignore that for this show and tell).

 

2. ON A NEW LAYER. Choosing the round marquee tool and holding the shift key draw a circle and fill that with a baby blue.

 

3. Duplicate that layer (the one with the baby blue circle). command/ctrl +j.

 

4 choose free transform (command/ctrl + t) and with the shift key held down move the circle on the top layer to the right until you have two circles showing. Hit return/enter. If you're wondering, the shift key contrains the movement to right or left or up or down.

 

5. NOW HERE'S THE COOL PART. do this until the circles extend from left to right..... command/ctrl + option/alt + shift + t ...... this dupes the last transform.

 

6. Starting with the top layer do command/ctrl + e until all the circles have been joined into one layer.

 

7. duplicate that layer.

 

8. use free transform again with the shift key held down and drag it down until you have two rows of circles.

 

9. Now DO THE COOL THING AGAIN. ... command/ctrl + option/alt + shift + t .....

 

10. Then from the top command/ctrl + e until all the dots are in one layer.

 

Now. you're done unless you wanna make it jazzier by adding blending effects via Layer > Layer Style > Blending Options.

Done