For the two of you out there that reads my blog. I’m sorry. Yesterday didn’t play well with my life and prevented me from posting. It happens to the best of us.

So tonight I have a treat for you. I will show you how to make a quick background using a texture. I have made a few of these for my friends and they are always asking me how to make them.

The first thing you need to do is find a great texture. There are lots of great sites out there for textures. One of my favorites is Lost and Taken. There are also some groups on flickr. I get my best textures from my own library like the one using tonight, or from texture vault.

Open it in Photoshop

Find a Great Font and write out something great:

Save as a JPG and your good to go.

You can get the files I used here:
Background
Fonts

A few wall papers I have made for you:

GrapeSoda Photography Red Bolt wall paper – 1280×800

Jones Soda dark wall paper – 1280×800

Jones Soda light wall paper – 1280×800

GrapeSoda Photography wall paper – 1280×800

Next week and the weeks after I will continue a few more photoshop tutorials. I hope you enjoy them. If you want to know how to do something just let me know I will put something together.

Please note that Jones Soda there brand, name, likeness, coolness, and anything else they might decide they want or looks like it might be theirs, is theirs and not mine. I have not gotten their permission to use there name or anything else. Also these are my creations. Feel free to use them, share them and pretty much do what ever you want with them. Just don’t sell them. If your going to make money on these please send some of it back my way. Stealing is wrong and it hurts my feelings and just so you know if your wondering I am not selling these or making any money on them. Jones soda has not endorsed me or contacted me. I bet they don’t even know I exist. (If you guys want to endorse me I would love to promote you. You can always contact me if anyone has a problem with anything here at jeremy at mygrapesoda dot com)