45 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper
Published August 12th, 2008 in Design, Photoshop TutorialsOne 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:
- 40 Photoshop tutorials for Lighting and Abstract Effects
- 40 Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper in Photoshop
- 35 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Your Own Posters
Create a Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper
Using Some Free Stuff to Create a Wallpaper
The Dark Knight Grunge Wallpaper

Fantastic Sunset Wallpaper Effects
Design a Vista Styled Wallpaper
Design an Extreme Grunge Wallpaper in Photoshop
Create a Spectacular Grass Text Effect in Photoshop
Celeb Wallpaper (update: this tutorial is no longer online)

Abstract Christmas Wallpaper 2
Creating a Mac-Type Background in Photoshop
Splashy Leaf Wallpaper in Photoshop
Design a Cool Football Wallpaper
Create an Abstract Retro-Pop Wallpaper
Harley Davidson Motorcycle Wallpaper

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119 Responses
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!
Awesome list here, and actually many I hadn’t seen before. Thanks for featuring two of mine
Photoshop’ta wallpaper tasarımı yapmakla ilgili 45 özel ders
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great tutorials..thanks…
Good list… can’t visit “Windows Wallpaper” above “Christmas Ornaments Wallpaper” though. The link is wrong. Keep it up!
Thank a lot! But the Splashy Leaf link is also incorrect.
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.
[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!
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.
I think some wallpapers have specific resolutions for iPhone’s, such as the ones from Abduzeedo.
wow, they all look great, I wonder if I can cope all
a great list of photoshop tutorials if you want to make beautiful wallpapers
amazing……….creations…..
very nice cant believe i havent found your site below, great list here once again.
I’m loving those designs. Thanks for collected them all together. Great work!
Wow. The dark night one is absolutely awesome
Awesome..!! i hope i can learn all of them…
do you have all of the tutorials in .pdf format??
thanks
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
This is a great tutorial for creating some great wallpapers, i will be creating some and uploading them to my wallpaper website
The dark knight one is absolutely brilliant
Great designs that have been created with flair and more importantly, flair.
Nice work!
Sorry that should have said created with flair and more importantly, thought.
Oops
amaze for me it so beautiful color and idea. thanks a lot.
They’re awesome wallpapers. I feel inspired to make some of my own. Maybe I’ll do a Nintendo DSi one to go with my website.
These look great! I’m a newcomer to Photoshop, and have always been a bit frustrated by my lack of design skills, but I’m getting there and every tutorial helps. Thanks!
first thanks to you.this is good tutorials. in feature i want more tutorials from u
Thanks for these excellent designs. I’m still at school and learning fast. The more tutorials I read the better. So thanks again.
wonderful work. Very nice thanx.:-)
Great design, very nice work Thanks for the effort and for sharing Brian.
Wow, some of them are really amazing. Especially Batman and Hardly Davidson.
I have to admit, I stopped in for the Harley Davidson wallpaper. But after looking over the selections I find it hard to make a choice. They are so wonderfully done!
The Summer Night wallpaper is amazing! Some really nice designs here.
The Most beautiful wallpapers I’ve ever seen…….. Im gonna try to do some of these…………… I really love them >>>>>
Hi, The feed your iphone tutorial link don’t work. plz can somewone put an other link
That’s all great wallpapers.
All wallpapers are awesome.
i am wondered how people create wonders using photoshop and other tools, and some with bare fingers…
hats off
Yer these wallpapers are good, wish i had the creativity to make my own.
Thanks for these excellent designs. Marc
As a massive batman fan, i love the Dark Knight Background! cheers
cool tutorials!
Thanks for the post and the great wall papers
nice wallpapers
leaky wall cracks are so sexy!!!!!@!!!
great tutorials! Vandelay design blog is one of the earliest design blogs i subscribe to via rss!
I love the Kung fu panda wallpaper! Great collection overall.
beautiful combination
hi! the “favorite bands tutorial” don’t work!!
can you put another link plz!!
y want to learn how to do that…
by the way, awesome list
Wow. Almost all the wallpapers are amazing. Wonderful list. My favorite wall paper form the above list is “Celeb Wallpaper”.
hey awesome post, I am a photographer and always looking for tutorials to help me improve
i like the anime girl the most
I add this site to my favorites list.This is the thing what i looking for and i want.I want to learn all of tutorials.So i start with “Christmas Ornaments Wallpaper” it seems to be relativly easy one and it suitable for coming x-mas session.Thanks for share all of this with world.
A huge list of tutorial for making a cool wallpaper, thx a lot guys
Fantastic list. Some really great skill on display here.
Really nice designs man, I love this post, will forward this to some friends because they love this kinder of art.
really nice tutorial…
unbelieveable..
Summer Night Wallpaper is very pro.
thanks nice wallpappers
wow…great tutorial. I think I’ll create my own wallpaper and maybe will make money from it
Great inspiration there, I’m definitely going to subscribe to your blog now. Cheers
Nice tips, so many tips
Brilliant work…. Helped me a lot… Thanks a million for the tutorials… Got a lot of ideas…
Can u check this out – Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper…. It doesn’t open for me…. I don’t know if there is something wrong with my connection or if there is something wrong with the Wavy Blackberry Style Wallpaper….
Ryan,
The link is working for me, please try it again.
Great tutorials! But.. The “Favorite Bands” tutorial, the link is broken? Is their any alternative to this tutorial? ‘Cause I really wan’t a wallpaper like that..
Great stuff. Canvas prints are going to get even better again
hi! the “favorite bands tutorial” don’t work!!
can you put another link plz!!
y want to learn how to do that…
by the way, awesome list
I don’t like vista wallpaper, it looks so dull.
Thanks for another great list. I liked it all.
Summer Night Wallpaper is very pro….i totally like it! Thanks for this great share, mate.
hi i want to make my name images “Deepak saini” in a perfect look can you help me in this
Coolest collection! I’ll use it for my works!
Thanks for sharing it
I love the work you have done and the tutorials you are offering. I am working on photoshop self taught, but there are so many things i have not been able to figure out on my own.
Thanks
Thanks so much for posting this great collection of tutorials. I’m just starting to learn more about photoshop and this information is very helpful.
Thanks!!
I love the work you have done and the tutorials you are offering. I am working on photoshop self taught, but there are so many things i have not been able to figure out on my own.
Thanks
Summer Night Wallpaper is very pro.
All amazing wallpapers, i cant believe that they have been all made in photoshop also, its pretty impressive – Toby
The “Favorite Bands” wallpaper url is broken, and I’d love to know where I could find soemthing similar to that tutorial, or the same tutorial on another website.
Other than that, some of these are really great!
hm.. not exactly what i was looking for. i want to create some wallpapers and I have the background images, i know what text to put, but the problem is i don’t know what filters to apply to the background image, or effects or stuff like that
awesome tutorials …. it helps me a lot
Fantastic tutorials! Can’t wait to start creating my own!
Awesome collections! Thanks for sharing.
Love the summer breeze wallpaper, next good one is celeb. Thanks for the great list!
Great compilation, thanks! The Kung Fu Panda tutorial helped me with my current project.
Awesome wallpaper collection! loved it!
I like the butterfly wallpaper. It’s amazing!