With the help of Adobe Photoshop, you can not only retouch and process photos, but also create effective and bright posters and screensavers based on them, which will not be inferior to professional graphic works that are used in advertising and printing. In order to create a beautiful and original screensaver from your own photo, you need Photoshop, as well as a little imagination and free time.
Instructions
Step 1
Create a new document with a size of 1280x1024. Create a new layer (Create New Layer), and then fill the new layer with a gradient fill, adding style to it Gradient Overlay. Choose any color in the gradient - for example, a transition from white to gray. Set the Gradient Style to Radial and the Blending Mode to Normal.
Step 2
Open your photo that you want to use for the screensaver and cut out the shape in the photo from the background. To remove the background, use any suitable tool - Lasso Tool, Magic Wand, Pen Tool. After removing the background around the shape, copy it and paste it into the gradient background document on a new layer.
Step 3
Select the Rectangular marquee tool option from the toolbar and create a small, narrow rectangular selection on the shape, and then right-click on it and select the Transform option. Expand the selection diagonally and confirm the transformation by pressing Enter. Use the Move Tool to move the selection slightly to the side. Part of the shape will move with the selection.
Step 4
Repeat this action a few more times to cut the shape from the photo in several places, creating an unusual visual effect from the displaced and distorted planes. Between the offset areas, draw 1 pixel straight white lines using the Line Tool. Combine the layers with lines into one group and set the opacity to 63% for this group.
Step 5
Now from the toolbar select the Ellipse Tool and draw a circle anywhere in the image, and then in the layer style select Gradient Overlay. Copy the ellipse layer twice, and then use the Free Transform option to resize the copied ellipses. Add a drop shadow to the created object in a layer style.
Step 6
Then you can further decorate the object with the Bevel and Emboss style and then select the Gradient overlay again, setting any new overlay color. Make as many colored ellipses as you like. You can also decorate the image with dots and arbitrary triangles of any size by expanding them using the Free Transform Tool.
Step 7
Set the blending mode of additional graphics to Overlay. Finish the splash screen with color correction - create a New Adjustment Layer and set the Curves option. Edit the curves so that the colors in the image are vivid and beautiful.
