Circles Background

By on November 8, 2005 in Miscellaneous, Photoshop, Tutorials

Let’s start with a very simple tutorial that will demonstrate how you can make a simple retro looking circles background in a few easy steps.

1. Create a new file (for this tutorial I used 2000*2000)

2. Hit D to reset the colors palette

3. Go to filter -> Render -> Clouds

4. Go to filter -> Render -> Difference Clouds

You should now have something like this
circles background photoshop tutorial render clouds

5. Go to Filter -> Pixelate -> Color halftone (I used a maximum radiance of 100 and for the rest I left the default values)

6. Repeat the last step 2-3 times (hit Ctrl-F) until you get something like this

Color halftone results

7. Go to Image-> Adjustments -> Gradient map and choose a gradient that you like
In this case I used this gradient

Gradient

And here is my final result

Final Result

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7 Responses to Circles Background

  1. Bieni January 26, 2006 at 10:24 am #

    Great Tutorial, i love it. Easy to follow, many thanks for it.
    Regards Bieni

  2. ita February 18, 2006 at 12:57 am #

    Hi,
    i used this tutorial. Like Bieni wrote, it’s easy to follow.
    Awesome ! Many thanks for it :)

  3. tsunamia February 23, 2006 at 3:00 am #

    nice job.
    i like you tut.
    easy but incredible.

  4. praveen March 2, 2006 at 2:18 am #

    the tutorial is good and its easy to follow even for the beginners.
    thanx a lot.

  5. BeatsZone June 23, 2006 at 7:11 am #

    Great tutorial mate…simple and effective….Thank you very much…

  6. KingDonJuan July 16, 2006 at 10:17 am #

    how Did You Get that Blue Colour !…

  7. Saurabh Gupta July 21, 2006 at 3:54 am #

    the tutorial (Circles Background) is good and its very easy to follow.
    thanks a lot.

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