#Creating website wallpaper for free#
#Creating website wallpaper how to#

To do this, you need to find out the resolution that your monitor is set at and set your image size in Photoshop to be those dimensions. To get started, you’ll need to first figure out the size of the desktop wallpaper to create so that it will look good on your screen. You’ll be amazed at what you can get from doing this. Below are some good starting points for free, (safe) design resources on the web.Īnother way of getting textures for your projects is to take your point and shoot camera and capture close-up photos of things around you. Always remember to be careful about what sites you download content from, and if the computer you’re working on isn’t yours, it’s best to ask the person who owns it if it’s okay to download a file. You can also find your own textures by doing a quick web search. You can download the fonts and textures to a file on your computer here: This project requires a few resources-a couple of fonts, some high-resolution textures and an AI (Adobe Illustrator) file I pre-made.

#Creating website wallpaper for free#

For projects that I am creating for only myself or that I won’t be re-selling, I always look for free resources, because who doesn’t love free stuff? When I work on professional projects for iD or freelance projects at home, I sometimes need to purchase certain graphics due to copyright issues. Did you know that if you attend camp, you can actually make a replica of a Mario game in our video game camps? Pretty cool stuff. Not only that, I find that there are a lot of free resources out there for Mario graphics. If you can’t tell by now, I really like Super Mario Bros (I mean seriously, have you played the New Super Mario Bros on DS? I’m totally addicted.). The final project that you’ll have at the end of this tutorial will look something like this:Īre you excited? It’s another Mario Bros. If you want to explore the possibilities that all of the Adobe products have, check out our graphic design courses or our video editing and photography camps.

These are all basic to intermediate skills and should be fairly easy to grasp. This tutorial will incorporate design elements such as adding textures, gradients, layer properties and using the mask feature in Photoshop.

#Creating website wallpaper how to#

I can honestly say that this project is one of my favorite projects every year and it often inspires me to create my own wallpapers in my free time, which is what I’ll be showing you how to do in this post. Each year since I’ve worked at the iD headquarters, I get the privilege of creating the camp desktop wallpapers for iD Tech Camps, which you can see if you attend any of our programs this summer since they’re installed on every computer that’s used at camp.