#kxe tutorial

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hiii, i really like your work. It's very aesthetic. Can i know, how you made it? thankyouu :)

Hii, thank you so much!! ❤️

Okay, since I wanted to make new wallpapers today, I'll show my process of making them~

By the way, english is not my native language. I tried to translate important info (my photoshop is in polish) but if you want to know more or I forgot about something, let me know!

Also make sure to open photos for a better quality ❤️

Let's begin~!

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Wallpaper Making Process (1/1)

Software: Photoshop 2020 (PC)

Palette (I used similar colors, not exactly the same ones)

Sometimes I have a general idea what I want to do, but when I don't, I browse Pinterest for any inspiration.

Today my inspiration was this picture 🙈:

So first of all, I opened a project with my phone screen size.

I started with making an orange rectangle on the side and then the smaller ones inside (everything on separate layers). I put the yellow boxes in a group and I pasted pictures of the other members.

For each member I created a clipping mask for the separate rectangles so these photos take the shape of these rectangles.

This is how the single clipping mask looks like:

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Next I pasted Yoongi's photo on top of the layers and duplicated it ❤️ I put one copy under the layer with the orange rectangle and got back to the one on top.

Using object selection tool, photoshop selected a subject for me (Yoongi) without the background. While he is selected, I clicked on 'add layer mask' on the bottom right (a rectangle with a circle inside), so the background is invisible. This is the effect I wanted:

So, the layer on top has no background (and overlaps the orange rectangle a bit) and the bottom one is a normal picture with the background.

The top layer alone looks like this:

Automatic selection isn't perfect, but I will fix imperfections later~

If you looked at my layers, you probably noticed a clipping mask on the orange rectangle. I added a texture but removed it later, so you can ignore it 💩

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Next I resized the yellow rectangles to make room for little squares.

Since I'm lazy, I used a png picture of a film strip (with transparent background) and selected only the squares and filled it with color. I grouped left and right side separately (hence there are two groups).

Later I grouped them into one group and removed the squares at the top and the bottom a bit, and now it's time to add some text ~

I always use dafont to look for nice fonts! At first this is what I created. (I'll list the font names at the end of the part 3 😊)

Starting with 'BTS' text, I right clicked on this layer and chose blending options at the top.

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Since I can't add anymore pictures, click below to go to part 2 😔👇

▶ Part 2

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Wallpaper Making Process (3/3)

▶ Part 1

▶ Part 2

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I use pixabay and unsplash to look for photos I need! There are a lot of pictures that can be used for free ^^

Usually I add some grain, but this time I found a nice picture to use that adds that dusty effect.

I made two layers with this picture with different blending modes. The one with multiply mode to create darker spots/to make picture 'dirty' and the second copy makes the picture brighter 😀

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And now filters 😍

In photoshop there are 'Color Lookups' that I use!

This is the part when I usually go through every filter to see what looks nice and play with blending modes and opacity/fill.

For this edit I used these:

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For the last steps, below the layers with filter, I added a plastic bag photos to create the highlights ( blending mode - screen) and I used glued paper texture to create the 'wrinkles' ( blending mode - multiply, fill - 39%).

Aaand this is the final result! 🥺

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Oh my, it took me a while 😅 I hope everything was clear, I had a few problems with explaining some things (and also I'm bad at explaining) 😣

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask! And if you have any tips for me, let me know 😃

Okay, I'm going to do the rest of the members~

보라해 💜

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Fonts:

BTS text: Hatolie

Black 'Introducing': A Baster Rules

Black 'Yoongi': Couture

Yellow text: Saniretro

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Wallpaper Making Process (2/2)

▶ Part 1

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So here I can style my text. I added a stroke, 4px, turquoise color.

I put the 'BTS' text to a group and went into the blending options again (so now the effects will apply to the whole group, not only the text. However you can also do it on the text layer). Now I made a yellow shadow.

My layers:

For a nice effect, I wanted to add stripes to the text.

I opened a picture in another window and went to Edit » Define Pattern and saved it.

Now I can go back to my blending options and add the pattern I created.

I created the pattern because I wanted the stripes to be smaller, and with this option I can scale them and the picture is seamless 😊

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Then I created a circle, changed font and added shadows~

The settings below are for the 'BTS' text to add shadow:

Above this "logo" I added more text with the shadow and repositioned everything.

Fun fact: 20th November is also my bday 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

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Now is the time to fix the imperfections of the automatic selection tool! What I did here was I just used the brush tool to draw hair (below the layer with Yoongi). For a better effect I copied the layer with Yoongi's picture and created a clipping mask to previously drawn hair. I moved his picture a little to the left so the drawn hair have now Yoongi's hair image so it can blend better.

Before and after:

Not a big difference but it looks nicer ~

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And now my favourite parts - textures and filters ❤️... In part 3 😅

▶ Part 3 (Last one I promise)