Simple but effective backgrounds Photoshop

[Andrew]

Today I will teach you how to make a pixel stretch background.

First of all open a a new document 300 x 130 with a white background you should have somethng like this,



Take a render of anything you want, and paste it into your grapic programme,

Mine so far



Select you marquee tool



and make a 1px line downthe center of your render and press Ctrl + C, Now press Ctrl + V, Then Hit Ctrl + T and drag the image across both sides

Like this:



Then this:



After that drag your background below your render,



Final result



And thats how to create a simple but effective background, it will be cool to see what you all come up.

[matthew]

Thanks for posting your tutorials, Andrew. i've added them both to the directory.

i don't have phtoshop so I did the same thing in psp using the rectangle selection tool, and the raster deform tool

[Andrew]

Cool outcome m@ if you use the smudge tool it also makes a even cooler effect

[matthew]

I could mess around with that background for hours ;D

[tentoes]

Here's mine. It sucks but it's only my first one...

[~Breezy~]

How do you get the Bg design once you select the marquee tool?

[~•XyMiC•~]

You right-click on the marquee tool, find "Single Column Marquee Tool" and select it. Click on a render once and press "V". Then, at the top you will see "Show bounding box" or "Show Transformation Controls". Check that box and all you need to do now is drag those little squares you will see.