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45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper

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One of the best ways to experiment and try new things with Photoshop is to create wallpaper. The huge canvas size will give you plenty of room to try anything you want, and there really is no limit to what you can create. Here are 45 tutorials that can help you to learn new tricks while designing wallpaper.

You may also be interested in the following collections of Photoshop tutorials:

    Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper

    Blackberry

    Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper

    Free Stuff

    2008 Wallpaper

    2008 Wallpaper

    Butterfly Wallpaper

    Butterfly Wallpaper

    The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

    Dark Knight

    Diving Wallpaper

    Diving Wallpaper

    Design a Cool Music Wallpaper

    Music Wallpaper

    The Joomp Wallpaper

    Joomp

    Fantastic Wallpapers

    Fantastic Wallpaper

    Feed Your iPhone Tutorial

    Feed Your iPhone

    Favorite Bands Tutorial

    Favorite Bands

    Summer Camp Wallpaper

    Summer Camp

    Animated Rainbow Wallpaper

    Animated Rainbow

    Fantastic Sunset Wallpaper Effects

    Sunset Wallpaper

    Abstract Art Wallpaper

    Abstract Art

    Anime Girl Wallpaper

    Anime Girl Wallpaper

    Autumn Wallpaper

    Autumn Wallpaper

    Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper

    Vists Styled Wallpaper

    Design an Extreme Grunge Wallpaper in Photoshop

    Extreme Grunge Wallpaper

    Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop

    Grass Text Effect

    Christmas Ornaments Wallpaper

    Christmas Ornaments

    Celeb Wallpaper

    Celeb Wallpaper

    Marine Wallpaper

    Marine

    Aquawave Wallpaper Effects

    Aquawave Wallpaper

    Summer Party Wallpaper

    Summer Party

    Vista Wallpaper

    Vista Wallpaper

    Abstract Christmas Wallpaper

    Abstract Christmas Wallpaper

    Abstract Christmas Wallpaper 2

    Abstract Christmas Wallpaper 2

    Abstract Wallpaper

    Abstract Wallpaper

    Love Wallpaper

    Love Wallpaper

    Summer Night Wallpaper

    Summer Night Wallpaper

    Star Wars Wallpaper

    Star Wars Wallpaper

    On Seacoast Wallpaper

    On Seacoast

    Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop

    Mac-type Wallpaper

    Splashy Leaf Wallpaper in Photoshop

    Splashy Leaf

    Kung Fu Panda Wallpaper

    Kung Fu Panda Wallpaper

    Splash My Heart Wallpaper

    Splash My Heart

    Wallpaper with Glass Dragon

    Dragon

    Design a Cool Football Wallpaper

    Football

    Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper

    Retro-Pop

    Summer Breeze Wallpaper

    Summer Breeze

    Harley Davidson Motorcycle Wallpaper

    Harley Davidson

    Wallpaper from Photos

    Wallpaper from Photos

    For more design resources, please see:

    Originally Published August 12th, 2008

    42 Responses

    1. David Leggett | August 13th, 2008 at 12:59 am

      Anything from Vlad is well worth a look in my books :) Nice list here mate.

      And thank you for including our Retro-Pop Wallpaper Tutorial!

    2. Tom Ross | August 13th, 2008 at 5:05 am

      Awesome list here, and actually many I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for featuring two of mine :)

    3. joyoge | August 13th, 2008 at 10:01 am

      Photoshop’ta wallpaper tasarımı yapmakla ilgili 45 özel ders
      http://www.joyoge.com/oku/579/Photoshop-ta-wallpaper-tasarimi-yapmakla-ilgili-45-ozel-ders.html

      great tutorials..thanks…

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    5. David | August 13th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

      Good list… can’t visit “Windows Wallpaper” above “Christmas Ornaments Wallpaper” though. The link is wrong. Keep it up!

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    7. Rose | August 13th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

      Thank a lot! But the Splashy Leaf link is also incorrect.

    8. Vandelay Design | August 13th, 2008 at 9:03 pm

      Thanks for the heads up on those links. The splashy leaf link has been corrected. I couldn’t find the right link for the windows tutorial so I had to remove that one. Sorry.

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    10. Bassofia | August 14th, 2008 at 1:32 am

      [Tiempo atrás encontré un blog buenísimo sobre diseño y otras yerbas llamado VandelayDesign, desde allá rescato esta entrada con nada menos que 45 tutoriales para crear y personalizar tus mejores fondos de pantalla.]

      Thanks!

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    12. Sky.com/save15 | August 14th, 2008 at 4:40 am

      Some of these designs are simply beautiful. I wish I had more talent :( Is it possible to get these wallpapers onto an iphone? If yes, how can i do it?

      thanks guys.

    13. Vandelay Design | August 14th, 2008 at 6:50 am

      I think some wallpapers have specific resolutions for iPhone’s, such as the ones from Abduzeedo.

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    21. max | August 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pm

      wow, they all look great, I wonder if I can cope all

    22. web design company | August 23rd, 2008 at 4:43 am

      a great list of photoshop tutorials if you want to make beautiful wallpapers

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    31. amit | October 7th, 2008 at 6:22 am

      amazing……….creations…..

    32. skins for bebo | October 19th, 2008 at 8:31 pm

      very nice cant believe i havent found your site below, great list here once again.

    33. Sean Reviews | October 23rd, 2008 at 6:27 am

      I’m loving those designs. Thanks for collected them all together. Great work!

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      Wow. The dark night one is absolutely awesome

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    39. Newbie | December 11th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

      Awesome..!! i hope i can learn all of them…

      do you have all of the tutorials in .pdf format??
      thanks

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    42. Bob | January 5th, 2009 at 8:30 pm

      Some of these are really nice.
      A friend of mine and I have a site where we make wallpaper patterns. Most of them are based off of things we’ve been research in art, design and nature.
      Here’s the link to site: http://www.farmidable.com/
      Here’s a link to our gallery: http://www.farmidable.com/desktop-wallpapers

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