• Global community
    • Language:
      • Deutsch
      • English
      • Español
      • Français
      • Português
  • 日本語コミュニティ
    Dedicated community for Japanese speakers
  • 한국 커뮤니티
    Dedicated community for Korean speakers
Exit
0

how to achieve this background effect with photoshop

Community Beginner ,
Jul 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

e3f89e87271319.5db2aefddc97e.jpg

Hi there, does anyone know how to achieve this background effect?  what sort of filters are being used here? 
I really like this effect, and wondering how it was created. 

TOPICS
macOS

Views

154

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Adobe
Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Blimey, you don't ask much.  Not really any filters as such, but a lot of work, use of blend modes and careful placement of the bars.  There are some tricks to make it easier though.  As it usually the way with Photoshop projects, when you have converging shapes, it's best to make them parallel, then group them as a Smart Object and Transform the Smart Object to produce the convergence.

 

This took me 15 minutes, and the above design will have taken much longer thhan that.  Possibly hours.

image.png

If I double click the coloured bars, you'll see there are two layers both nest Smart Objects, and set to different blend modes.

TrevorDennis_0-1626954469946.png

If I double click one of the coloured bars, you can see they are still layered and still parallel.  This allowed me to move them around (Holding down the Ctrl key to autoselect the layers.  There are a couple of Hue/Sat layers to change the colours of those layers.  I used motion blur on the right side by selecting about half of their width, and feathering the selection with a high value.

TrevorDennis_1-1626954621006.png

 

Your example appears to have an old house in the background, so I found a French Gite witch had the right look and placed that above the background.  I then Ctrl Clicked the coloured bars to load them as a selection, and added layer mask to the old building layer to let thhe black background show through.

 

To do this properly you'd take a lot of care with each bar.  What I did was make one bar and copied it a bunch of times. The I ctrl clicked to select each layer in turn, and ran coloured gradients along them.  

TrevorDennis_2-1626955062542.png

 

So no magic, and definitely no single click filters.  I can already think of things that would have made my quick and dirty version better like increasing contrast of the bar colours, and maybe adding noise before I did the motion blur.  That's another reason you use Smart Objects.  You can step back and make those changes because none of it is hard baked in.  It's non-destructive.

 

 

 

 

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Nice job Trevor

Dave

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Beginner ,
Jul 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Thank you so much Trevor for your advice, I will give it a try right away.   Sorry for not writing much, I am not so good with words.  Thanks again!

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Beginner ,
Jul 23, 2021 Jul 23, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

LATEST

Screenshot 2021-07-23 at 5.07.19 PM.png

Hi Trevor, I tried one with your advice.  It really helped me out.  Thank you so much!   But I am not sure how to get the end of the strips to look like the reference one. I used motion blur and some gaussian blur.  

 

Terence

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Jul 22, 2021 Jul 22, 2021

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

It might be worth looking into a 3D solution, but transformed Smart Objects with Motion Blurred rectangles might provide some approximation. 

 

Edit: I had missed Trevor’s post, good illustration. 

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines