Does anyone know how to make the backgrounds/backdrops used by the photographer on this website? (scroll down to see them)
http://www.digital-background.net/

He sells a video and tutorials, but I know it's only for Photoshop and I use PSPX. I am not looking for tutorials on how to make curtains, but just the nice plain digital backdrops.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Queen,

here's a quick breakdown on how to make a backdrop similar to the 1st. (It looks a lot closer if you choose two grey tones that are nearer in tone to the two I chose).


Open a new document to size required.
Set foreground and background colours on your palette to your choice (I chose 2 shades of grey).
Apply clouds render filter.
Create new layer.
Make an eliptical selection on the new layer, then invert the selection.
Fill the selection (area outside elipse) with black.
Set Blend mode to Overlay.
Blur using Gaussian Blur (large radius).
Finally adjust layer opacity to taste.


You can get a whole lot of different looks by minor variations on this theme.

ie change foreground/background colours, use a gradient instead of the eliptical mask etc. etc. (see 2nd pic)

This is mainly for Paint Shop Pro users. I downloaded the Clouds Plugin from here (http://www.geocities.com/murakuma/mmplugins.html). Those of you with CS will already have it.

Open a new document and go to Effects/Plugins/Mura's Meister/Clouds...these are the settings I used: See first image.


Now add a new raster layer and fill this with a gradient as I've done here: See second image.


Now set this layer blend to soft light and adjust the opacity to suit. I adjusted mine to 70%. See 3rd image for finished backdrop.


Now to get the different colours I just went to Adjust/Hue and Saturation/Colourize and changed it! See 4th image.


The last image is a crop from a photo of a cousins niece. I separated her from the background she was on, added the backdrop and gave her a painted look. (This is half the size of the original)

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate the time you both took help me out. :wink:

God Bless you

You're welcome. :happy: