Buz Carter
Steam Punk Background/Wallpaper/Desktop (work in progress)
Doing a theme for myspacetv, a steam punk homage, we'll see whether this gets approved.
Just in case it isn't, well, at least a dozen people might eventually see it.
Started last night around 11, stayed up until 5, then spent a few more hours building additional needed assets & turning it into CSS this morning.
Created 3 photoshop patterns (step and repeat tiles) using some photos taken 8 years ago with my trusty Nikon 990. Those were the days?
The brass and rust are just variations of a picture of dirt, the main panel is a traffic light 's controller box (with pealing paint), and then there's some noise and grime added using a shot of wet leaves on a sidewalk. All tweaked with Curves, Color Mixer adjustment layers, of course.
The gears were whipped up in Illustrator (hint: stars + circles + pathfinder, repeat), copy & pasted into Photoshop as the clipping path for numerous Pattern adjustment layers. Lots and lots of layers.
Oh, this should tile fairly well. Haven't cleaned the edges precisely just yet -- need to see how much it'll need to be rearranged for the web pages, but any seams should be minimal.
I'm slowing re-engaging following a, let's see, "full" past few months -- last couple of weeks have been -- quite decent.
Update:
After several requests I've written a tutorial on making these steam punk wallpapers, Make A Steampunk Gear Using Photoshop Patterns and Effects
Steam Punk Background/Wallpaper/Desktop (work in progress)
Doing a theme for myspacetv, a steam punk homage, we'll see whether this gets approved.
Just in case it isn't, well, at least a dozen people might eventually see it.
Started last night around 11, stayed up until 5, then spent a few more hours building additional needed assets & turning it into CSS this morning.
Created 3 photoshop patterns (step and repeat tiles) using some photos taken 8 years ago with my trusty Nikon 990. Those were the days?
The brass and rust are just variations of a picture of dirt, the main panel is a traffic light 's controller box (with pealing paint), and then there's some noise and grime added using a shot of wet leaves on a sidewalk. All tweaked with Curves, Color Mixer adjustment layers, of course.
The gears were whipped up in Illustrator (hint: stars + circles + pathfinder, repeat), copy & pasted into Photoshop as the clipping path for numerous Pattern adjustment layers. Lots and lots of layers.
Oh, this should tile fairly well. Haven't cleaned the edges precisely just yet -- need to see how much it'll need to be rearranged for the web pages, but any seams should be minimal.
I'm slowing re-engaging following a, let's see, "full" past few months -- last couple of weeks have been -- quite decent.
Update:
After several requests I've written a tutorial on making these steam punk wallpapers, Make A Steampunk Gear Using Photoshop Patterns and Effects