This is a process on how I did my e-wallpaper. I may edit it a little more later.
1. I opened my workspace as shown above. The size in A4, but in landscape form. The resolution is 300 ppi. I named the file as
Assignment 1 (1102701011).
2. I opened a picture taken from Google as shown above, and selected the Christmas tree using the
Quick Selection tool.
3. I right-clicked and selected the 'select inverse' option, and used the
Blur tool to blur the selected area.
4. I clicked the 'select inverse' option again to go back to the Christmas tree. Then I opened the
Filter Gallery, and selected the
Paint Daubs filter.
5. I reselected the background again and opened the
Filter Gallery too. This time I used the
Watercolor filter. I did this so that more emphasis is put on the Christmas tree rather than the whole picture.
6. I selected the whole image, and dragged it to my workspace as shown above, and made it fill up the workspace. I then renamed the layer as
back.
7. I opened another image as shown above, and selected it using the
Quick Selection tool. I dragged the selected image back to my workspace, resized it, and made two other copies and arranging them in the order as shown above. I named the layer as
snowflake.
7. I opened another image, selected it using the
Quick Selection tool, dragged it back to my workspace, resized it, made another copy, and arranged it as shown above. I then merged the two layers with the
snowflake layer and renamed it as
snowflake & mistletoe.
8. I opened another image, selected it using the
Quick Selection tool, dragged it back to my workspace, resized it, and arranged it using the
Flip Horizontally option as shown above.
9. I opened the
Filter Gallery and selected the
Smudge Stick filter. Next, I opened the
Blending Options, and selected the
Inner and Outer Glow options, as I wanted to highlight the carolers.
10. I opened another image, selected it using the
Quick Selection tool, dragged it back to my workspace, resized it, and arranged it as shown above. I renamed the layer as
santa claus.
11. I opened another image, selected it using the
Quick Selection tool, dragged it back to my workspace, resized it, and arranged it as shown above. I renamed the layer as
presents. Then I opened the
Filter Gallery and selected the
Smudge Stick filter.
12. I opened another image, selected it using the
Quick Selection tool, dragged it back to my workspace, resized it, and arranged it as shown above. I renamed the layer as
santa sleigh moon. I even changed the opacity to 72% just to see whether it fits, and I opened the
Blending Options, and selected and adjusted the
Inner and Outer Glow options as shown above.
13. In the end, I changed the opacity back to 100% as it is more suitable. I then used the
Horizontal Type tool to type the words
Season's Greetings. I used a downloaded font,
ChopinScript and the size of the font is
100pt. Then I opened the
Blending Options, and selected and adjusted the
Drop Shadow, Outer Glow and Bevel and Emboss- Contour options as shown above.
14. Here is the wallpaper, presented in
JPEG form.
1. For my 1st e-wallpaper, I made a mistake when choosing the filter for the Christmas tree, so I wanted to do it again. So once again, I used the Quick Selection tool to select the Christmas tree.
2. I then clicked on the select inverse option after right-clicking the selected image to select the so-called 'background', and used the Blur tool to blur the 'background'.
3. I selected the Christmas tree again to rectify my mistake: Instead of choosing the Ink Outlines filter I chose the Paint Daubs filter, which wasn't exactly what I wanted. So I went into the Filter Gallery and selected my preferred filter.
4. After that, i reselected my 'background' and used the Watercolor filter again.
5. I selected the whole image and dragged it back to my workspace as shown above.
6. I resized the image to cover up the entire workspace, then I deleted the previous layer back, and renamed the new layer back.
7. Next, I wanted to edit my mistletoes as I still can see some irregularities there. So, I selected the two mistletoe images, opened the Filter gallery and selected the Poster Edges filter, and used the Blur tool to blur them.
8. The moon was next for editing. I adjusted the Outer and Inner Glow options as shown above so that the moon can glow brighter.
9. I've also moved the words a little to the left so that the moon's glow isn't blocked.
10. I then realized that the resolution that I was using was wrong, so I went to the Image Size option and changed the resolution to 72 ppi. After that, some of my layers were a little out of the way. So, I had to adjust them again.
11. Firstly, adjusted my type layer as the Drop Shadow, Outer and Inner Glow, and Bevel & Emboss-Texture options went wrong. So, I adjusted them back again as shown above.
12. Next was the moon, for it's Outer Glow option had to be corrected, and so I did.
13. Lastly, the carolers' Outer Glow option was also wrong, so I corrected it as shown above.
14. I then wanted to create some sort of texture for the wallpaper, so I placed a selected image as shown above and named the layer as texture.
15. I toyed with the opacity and fill of the layer.
16. When I was satisfied with the opacity and the fill, I created a layer mask and used the Brush tool to remove part of the texture layer so that certain parts of the wallpaper can be seen, as shown above.
17. This is my finalized e-wallpaper.
