RGB Ants – Free IPhone Wallpaper

This wallpaper project was an experiment in combining a couple  of different filter techniques in PhotoShop Elements 6.0. The goal was to take a grayscale image of an ant and spice it up with some color and shine. I could have taken the boring route and  just replaced the grayscale with monochromatic red, green or blue.  Instead, I used a little diffuse glow and plastic wrap filter effects to give the ants some pop.

Here is the recipe:

1. Set the background color to red.
2. Apply Filter/Distort/Diffuse Glow effect to the image layer.
3. Apply Filter/Artistic/Plastic Wrap to the image layer.
4. Duplicate the image layer.
5. Select the duplicate and apply Image/Rotate/Invert Selection Vertically
6. Rotate and move the reflected image layer under the original image
7. Set layer transparency to 25%.
8. Select both layers and merge layers.
9. Repeat using different colors.

See the wallpaper on an iPhone and get download instructions here.

Tags: ants, Apple, diffuse glow, filter effects, free wallpaper, glow effect, iPhone, Photohop Elements 6.0, photoshop elements, plastic wrap, RGB