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Photo Effects ›› Beautiful Rainbow Island Wallpaper
 
STEP1:

Creat a new document (Ctrl+N)

Size at 800x600px or 1024x768px that suitable for your monitor.

Pick Gradient Tool

Choose this gradient from the Gradient Editor



If you can't see this gradient, please go to "Load..." ~> Point to gradient preset folder inside Photoshop folder ~> Load "Special effect"

Hold your left mouse and drag from A to B :



And you'll have this result :



STEP 2:

Download and load this brush into your photoshop : Land_brush

Choose any "island" inside this brush set that you like :



I choose this one :



Creat a new layer on the top, brush in the middle :



Creat a new layer and put it under "island layer"

Pick Eliptical Marquee Tool

Make an eliptical selection :



Fill this selection with color #12a80d



Continue making creat new layer and fill selection like this :



Result :



STEP 3:

Download and load this brush into your Photoshop : Tree_brush



Pick any brush inside this brush set that you like, creat new layer on the top and start brushing....



Download and load this brush into your Photoshop : AK_VectorPeople



Pick any people you like and put them on the grass :



Download and load this brush into your Photoshop : Cloud Brush

Creat a new layer under "island layer" and brush a little...



You've already finished this tut with sample details.

This is my final result with some other details :
(click on the picture below to see full size)



You've already finished this tutorial. Good luck!

Download PSD file
 
 
Rate and discussion this tutorial
david said on 2008-04-17 22:04:50
hey how can i get the brushes to be compatible with photoshop 6?
Rajesh rajesh.24kumar@gmail.com said on 2008-07-05 14:07:10
A very nice tutorial, I have submitted your tutorial to PSLinks
<a href ="http://pslinks.us/PhotoEffects/beautiful-rainbow-island-wallpaper/">Beautiful Rainbow Island Wallpaper</a>
Clean Cut Media paulieside@yahoo.com said on 2008-09-24 17:09:03
thanks for the link to brushes. very convenient
Charles said on 2008-09-25 10:09:48
Thanks for writing this tutorial, however the techniques behind the details were what I was really hoping for.
pjokkster said on 2008-09-25 12:09:34
wow you can use brushes woho
Arjun Parsi said on 2008-10-05 02:10:35
Great work
Jaketwo_91 Jaketwo_91@yahoo.com.au said on 2008-10-07 02:10:11
Hey, nice tutorial, the only thing i'd say is, when i went to open the gradient it was in color harmonies 2 for me.
nestor said on 2008-10-24 14:10:11
Hey.. thanks for the tutorial =)
It's really good that people like u could help us :P
I'd only wish that you said the "details" in the last part :P
well.. thanks again
Tiki said on 2009-02-10 14:02:25
My outcome: http://tiki93.deviantart.com/art/Magic-Island-111665597
Akin said on 2009-05-28 09:05:51
Can these brushes be used in commercial projects?
Mark-CFC said on 2009-11-29 20:11:12
This tutorial is great, nice and simple with a great outcome. Thanks :)