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thundybear — Photoshop Tutorial: Pretty Bubble Wallpaper Effect

Published: 2012-07-13 02:46:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 6790; Favourites: 189; Downloads: 198
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I was playing around with photoshop brushes, and I accidentally discovered how to make a spray of circles-like brush. So I messed about a little and finally discovered how to make that really pretty bubble-art effect I see in a bunch of desktop wallpapers I love!

So, of course I had to make a tutorial to show everyone else how I do it (or how I did it, at least!) And sorry if there is already a better tutorial out there for this--this is just my method of going at it!

SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS YOU CAN DO:
- Try locking the transparency of your bubbles layers and then using the gradient tool to turn your bubbles into rainbows or any other gradient you want
- Add another layer of bubbles under your first two, and blur it twice to add more depth
- Try adding a drop shadow to your bubbles layers or an outer glow by double clicking the space to the right of the layer's name in the layer dialogue box, and toying with the layer styles box

If you use this in a work on deviantart, totally put it in the comments below so I can check it out!

EDIT: I fixed the spelling on a few parts

EDIT: CHECK OUT MY NEW Rain Effect Tutorial for photoshop!

Fav and comment if you like, lots of love, .
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Comments: 9

RonaldEM [2013-08-21 20:07:45 +0000 UTC]

Muy bueno!

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pstwist2 [2013-01-10 18:33:04 +0000 UTC]

Its great, worked fine and beautiful..
You can also find such thing at [link]
and have new ideas..also give feed back to request more..

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JeanaWei [2012-11-21 13:40:58 +0000 UTC]

I think those "bubbles" are called brokeh ^_^

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RhyssaFireheart [2012-07-26 00:54:24 +0000 UTC]

Great tutorial! I've been wanting to find one that showed how to do bubbles like this and the timing was perfect. Thanks for sharing!

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misterdoe [2012-07-19 01:32:08 +0000 UTC]

Looks great! I'm gonna try to use this soon...

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paintedferret025 [2012-07-17 00:24:11 +0000 UTC]

that is amazing!
what version of photoshop did you use, because i have 9 and i couldnt do it very well

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thundybear In reply to paintedferret025 [2012-07-17 16:31:37 +0000 UTC]

I did this in CS4.

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paintedferret025 In reply to thundybear [2012-07-21 17:27:24 +0000 UTC]

oh.

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catbleu [2012-07-14 04:54:39 +0000 UTC]

Awesome!

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