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RGB Ants – Free IPhone Wallpaper

Mike Askew — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 03:48:04 +0000

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:

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

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

iPhone Wallpaper – Exploring Ants

Mike Askew — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:36:52 +0000

This wallpaper is the fruits of some exploration of creating reflections in PhotoShop. I wanted to see if I could create the effect of ants walking on the reflective surface of the iPhone screen. The approach to this was very straightforward. Once you have the ant image you like you next copy it, mirror it horizontally, set transparency to 25%, align under original and group. Next, you copy the grouped ant and reflection and paste it as many times as you want. Monkey around with rotating the copies and you get a reasonable expedition of ants doing recon on your iPhone screen.

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

iPhone Wallpaper

Mike Askew — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:47:32 +0000

Want one of these wallpaper image on your iPhone? Then do the following:

Right-Click on image of wallpaper in phone to open full resolution wallpaper image.
Save the image file to your computer.
Email the image to your iPhone.
Save the image into your Photo Library.
Set image as your wallpaper.