Archive: June 24, 2009

An Abstract Wallpaper (Process)

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This thing is nothing fancy, but it’s one of those things that I think is pretty cool because of how it started out … as a grey background with light grey triangles:

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^ I made a triangle, positioned it randomly, repeated this a couple dozen times.
I had no idea what I was doing at this point.

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^ At some point I got bored of doing that and started selecting (magic wand), filling, and blurring parts of the triangles.

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^ MOTION BLUR! Now we’re getting somewhere awesome.

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^ Added type, duplicated the blur, adjusted the colour.
At this point I decided that grey and easter colours weren’t going to cut it.

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^ Enter vibrant purple-pink!

That’s about it.
There was tweaking to the type (masked bits of it) and added some texture and warmer colours to get the final result.