How to DIY your own carbon fiber wallpaper?
March 11, 2007 27 Comments
What you need to have: Adobe Photoshop
PS: ⌘ key for Mac users / CTRL key for Windows users
Prepare the texture pattern
(Download the ready made texture 1 and texture 2 if you are too lazy to create your own.)
1. In Photoshop, create a new document by pressing ⌘N / CTRL-N. Set the size at 20×20 pixel.
2. Zoom in (z) few step so that you can work on it easily. Choose Rectangular Marquee from the toolbar (m).
3. Make the selection of 5×10 pixel
4. Set foreground and background colour as different tone of gray:
Foreground: #171717
Background: #3a3a3a
5. Select Gradient Tool (g), then choose ‘Foreground to Background’
6. Fill the selection with the colours chosen by dragging across the selection area.
7. Make another selection of 10×5 pixel, fill with the gradient of:
Foreground:#282828
Background: #0d0d0d
8. Select all (⌘A / CTRL-A), copy selection (⌘C / CTRL-C), paste selection (⌘V / CTRL-V), then use Move Tool (v) to arrange the new layer into position:
9. Paste the selection into new layer again and arrange until it looks like this:
10. Combine all the layers: Menu > Layer > Flatten Image
11. Define a new pattern: Menu > Edit > Define Pattern…
Making the actual wallpaper
12. Create a new document by pressing ⌘N / CTRL-N. Set the size of your screen resolution. Eg: 1600×1200
13. Fill with the texture pattern: Menu > Edit > Fill… ; Use ‘Pattern’ and choose the last pattern that you just created from the Content section.
14. Apply effect: Menu > Filter > Render > Lighting Effects…
15. Adjust levels (⌘L / CTRL-L): Menu > Image > Adjustments > Levels…
Save!
16. To preserve the detail quality of the wallpaper, save it as PNG or BMP.
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Best FREE carbon fiber wallpaper ever found on net!
🙂 will subscribe to your feed. How about some free wallpapers of your creation?
Sure, a new wallpaper for you. https://ebin.wordpress.com/2007/03/18/free-tree-wallpaper/ 😉
Hi, I love the carbon fiber wallpaper, however, I like it better in the pattern you have in the banner of your webpage. Any luck on having a tut (toot) on how to make that pattern?
Thanks!
Sorry, I found it. Whoopsie.
I tried making myself. but it didnt come out right. also i tried using you texture. but the squares were too big.
cool coz i’m really new using photoshop
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Excellent Carbon Fiber. I photograph it all the time and it takes forever to get the right look. I think I’ll create your pattern and fake it from now on. Looks better!
nice carbon fiber, looks like something I could use on my web site
web development
Great tutorial, mine came out great, thanks
my turns out good thanks for the guide it really helps me alot
Very nice tutorial.. I had just created my own wallpaper in blue color.
It look like a desktop 2.0 now.. 😛
wow thanks i’ve done awsome wallpapers with this some w/diff colored wallpapers too,thx a million!
Great looking Carbon Fibre – THANKS for the tutorial!!
thanks alot 🙂
thank u for this tutorial, very useful. i’m starting out.
damn nice texture tutorial, is some kind of background able to use like this on design. thanks a lot…….^^
great tuto is very usefull
thanks
cool…:)
Awesome Pattern, looked for months,
now I can used them on games.
Thanks
Thanks dude,
yr da genius!
yo great tutorial !!
easy and fast, just what i was looking for 🙂
gratz and keep it up, thanks!
Dude, my laptop only weighs about 400 grams now thanks to this awesome carbon fiber wallpaper. Thanks for the tutorial and the inspiration! See you at the races on Sat.
Peace
Thank you very much, it helped me to make my ArchLinux wallpaper. Details here: http://manzard.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/arch-carbon-fibre-wallpapers/
Here’s a couple of .pat files for those of us using GIMP:
http://www.syrinx.net/public/carbon-fibre-left.pat
http://www.syrinx.net/public/carbon-fibre-right.pat
I found that using a 20×20 pixel pattern didn’t work very well in GIMP for some reason, so I did my own 6×6 pixel pattern that works like a charm. Just put them in one of your pattern folders (Edit > Preferences > Folders > Patterns on Linux) and they’ll appear in your patterns palette.
yo, this is great tutorial, thats awesome, i will try it 🙂