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40 Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper in Photoshop

Published November 24th, 2008 in Design

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A few months ago I published a collection of 45 Photoshop tutorials for creating wallpaper. Since then I have come across many other quality tutorials on the same subject, so I put together a second collection of wallpaper tutorials.

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

Typography Wallpaper in Photoshop

Typography Wallpaper

Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

Bokeh Wallpaper

Design a Halloween Pumpkin Wallpaper in Photoshop

Halloween Wallpaper

Impressive Photo’s Background

Impressive Photo Wallpaper

Paintball Club Wallpaper

Paintball Wallpaper

Ford Mustang Wallpaper

Ford Mustang Wallpaper

Poker Gaming Club

Poker Wallpaper

Custom Floral Wallpaper

Custom Floral Wallpaper

Super Cute Easter Wallpaper Illustration Tutorial

Easter Wallpaper

Create an Intensely Grungy Wallpaper

Grungy Wallpaper

Abstract Lines Background

Abstract Lines

Make a Blood Stain Wallpaper

Blood Stain Wallpaper

Turning a Picture Vintage

Vintage Wallpaper

Create a Psychedelic Grungy Photography Desktop Wallpaper

Photography Wallpaper

Vector Wallpaper Tutorial

Vector Wallpaper

Old Photos Wallpaper Tutorial

Old Photos Wallpaper

Art Wallpaper with Stars

Art Wallpaper

Creating an Abstract 3D Design

Abstract 3D Wallpaper

Wall-E Cartoon Style Wallpaper

Wall-E Wallpaper

Knight Rider Wallpaper Tutorial

Knight Rider Wallpaper

Team Fortress 2 Wallpaper

Team Fortress 2 Wallpaper

Funky Wallpapers

Funky Wallpapers

Mysticism in the X-Files (I Want to Believe)

X-Files Wallpaper

Designing a Wallpaper in Photoshop (video)

Wallpaper Tutorial

The “Creativity” Wallpaper

Creativity Wallpaper

The “Colour” Wallpaper

Colour Wallpaper

Colorful Collage Wallpaper

Collage Wallpaper

Green Apple Style Design

Apple Wallpaper

Presidential Pattern in Photoshop

Presidential Pattern

Sun Day Design

Sun Day Wallpaper

Abstract Desktop Wallpaper

Abstract Wallpaper

Diablo III Styled Wallpaper

Diablo Wallpaper

Aqua Pure Illustration

Aqua Pure Illustration

Amorous Wallpaper

Amorous Wallpaper

Girl Next Door – Wallpaper with Jessica Alba

Jessica Alba Wallpaper

How to Create Christmas Wallpapers

Christmas Wallpaper

Wave Digital Fusion Wallpaper

Wave Digital Fusion

Dolphins Wallpaper

Dolphins Wallpaper

Iron Man Wallpaper

Iron Man Wallpaper

Water Drops on a Spider Web

Spider Web Wallpaper

For more Photoshop tutorials, see:

63 Responses to “40 Tutorials for Creating Wallpaper in Photoshop”

Regina Dunn November 25th, 2008

Awesome list!

Zvezdochka November 26th, 2008

WOW!!!+1 to delicious.

wallpapers November 26th, 2008

wow – that must have taken some work. thx

jd November 26th, 2008

i love the little chicken!

fireplace design November 27th, 2008

Great Article.Thanks for sharing.Keep posting like this wonderful post.

Coty November 27th, 2008

These are great for me since I just got back into seriously using photoshop!

Ryan G December 1st, 2008

I’ve used some of these to good effect now. Thanks.

John December 1st, 2008

I know that youre (the author) just trying to make another tutorial list on the net to make some cash via your blog, & im all about that.. but my issue with all these “tutorials” is that they only teach process. not composition or creative value. I went to a major art college and majored in graphic design and advertising design, and what i see here, along with most tutorials on the web today, are shit. they look bad. most of you without any formal training think they are the best thing EvEr!! but no, wrong. you may learn some techniques and etc, but as far as actually looking good enough to be creative, beautiful pieces of art. they are not. just my two cents, i ask everyone to take the techniques from these and improve upon the compositions, otherwise, what you think looks great is only relative to your lack of experience. keep that in mind.

Vandelay Design December 1st, 2008

John,
I agree that some are better than others. Most of the tutorials that are chosen for this list (or any of my lists) are selected because they teach some type of valuable technique for working with Photoshop. As you said, they teach the process. I agree with you that this is only half of the equation, but I don’t agree that we all think they are the best thing ever. My response to you is, if you think these tutorials are crap and people should be taught better design, why don’t you do it? The audience is there.

I love Photoshop’s textures – these are nice examples of the expanse of Photoshop’s effects. These wallpaper designs would also look really cool on brochures or posters.

Yuuzaa December 18th, 2008

wow, nice list for inspirations.

MBA Colleges in India December 24th, 2008

awesome images

3d wallpaper fan January 9th, 2009

I like Photoshop’s textures too. I guess they are wonderful samhles of the expanse of Photoshop’s effects! It’s really cool free 3d wallpaper among those i have ever seen!

Desktopsmania January 23rd, 2009

creative and inspiration.

Sashank February 23rd, 2009

These are cool.Just what I am searching for.
Thanks.

sebastian February 27th, 2009

amazing and creating the wallpaper design in the photoshop

daniel February 27th, 2009

excellent tutorials for the creating of wallpaper. and you are giving instruction step by step this is very useful for the guidence

Nikhil Garg March 16th, 2009

More to add on the list :

50 More Wallpapers for Designers

http://illustra.co.in/blog/?p=192

Great Wallpapers Loaded With Color

http://illustra.co.in/blog/?p=1181

Computer Background March 24th, 2009

These are really nice. Thankyou very much. :-)

4design April 23rd, 2009

Very nice! I too have any wallpappers on my blog – Welcome!

Audi Wallpapers May 20th, 2009

Great tutorials. I have a new rss subscriber.

HiperX July 23rd, 2009

That’s all great wallpapers. Thanks a lot. My desktop is more attractive

rbk July 27th, 2009

nice pic.

Ashima August 5th, 2009

I like desktops with beautiful wallpapers. I search for them at blogs but also at http://www.sharewallpapers.org where I can find thousands of them. I recomend it to all of you.

Bj Zimmerman August 23rd, 2009

this is so great to learn the procedures for photoshop and the tutorials are so great to follow for beginners like myself. Thank you so much for the time to do this.

Blaberize September 5th, 2009

Those wallpaper tutorial s are newbie-friendly. Thanks for posting this. Bookmarked n thumbs up =)

Fireplaces September 13th, 2009

These are really nice.
Thank you very much.

Betclic.fr October 6th, 2009

Excellent artwork, thank you !

cars modified October 30th, 2009

design drawings that you create wonderful, I became very interested in your tutorial. I will try your suggestion. in order to make a good picture as you make

Vinoy November 10th, 2009

hey,
i went through some of your creations here and think they are great… Learn’t a great deal but i was wondering how to extract a model or character with black or dark brown hair against a dark or black background. saw few techniques such as those using the Extract filter and Background eraser but they don’t work well against dark background, one cannot extract all of the hair strands using these technique to make the pictures realistic. do you have any suggestions? will wait for your reply..

Vandelay Website Design November 10th, 2009

Vinoy,
It’s pretty difficult with dark hair on a dark background. I’m not aware of any good tutorials for that, I’m not not really sure what the best approach would be. Personally, I would try to get another photo to make life easier and to get a better selection.

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