Learn how to create your very own abstract space background in this tutorials! Category: Filter Effects

Learn how to create your very own abstract space background in this tutorials!

Step 1: Start off with a new 1024 x 768 px document. Change your foreground color to "0b2572" and your background color to "6ab77e." Select the gradient tool, and create a gradient like below.
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Step 2: Now go up to Filter > Render > Lens Flare. Select the movie prime option, and place one in the top right corner at 150% brightness, hit ok. Add a few more at 50% brightness, and one at 100% brightness, so you should have something like below all on the background layer.
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Step 3: Duplicate the layer, and go up to Filter > Distort > Shear. Tweak it around anyway you would like, this is where you can get creative, however you shear it, is the major outcome, here is how mine looks!
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Step 4: Go up to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation (Settings: 328,50,0), and you should now have something like this.
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Step 5: Set the blending mode to "Multiply," and merge the layers together. Layer > Merge Down.
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Step 6: Duplicate the layer, and go up to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur (Settings: 10px), and set the blending mode to "Linear Dodge." Merge the layers together again.
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Step 7: Now create a new layer, and go up to Filter > Render > Clouds, and go to Image > Adjustments > Levels (CTRL + L), set the middle box setting from 1.00 to .50, so you get a dark cloud effect.
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Step 8: Set the blending mode to "Color Dodge," and merge the layers together, you have now learned how to make a basic abstract space background, add some 3d, touch it up yourself, and your ready to go!
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