Decorate your desktop with stormy wallpaper

After the tutorial, which shows how to decorate your desktop with a dreamy style. Today, I would like to choose another topic for our desktops, STORM. Yes, we are going to make a stormy wallpaper.

Step 1: Open this pic (i will provide link for download at the end of this tut,so scroll down to download it if you want to try this tut)

Step 2: Make it go black & white by click Shift+Crtl+U or Image>Adjustment>Desaturate.Also,apply Surface Blur on it,but don’t overdo it,we don’t want to make it too blurry,so you might as well go with the default value or even lower than it.

Step 3: Use Black and White gradient to create a layer like this(on top of the first one).

Then choose Blending Mode : Overlay,we have this.

Use Cloud Brush to add another cloud to the pic like this(remember to do it on another new layer),color of this cloud is match with the original one,so just use eyedrop to know the color.Also,go to Blending Option>tick Satin ( 90 degree)

Then Duplicate the Cloud layer and here the Smudge Tool come into the play,smudge the duplicated layer around but only at that area,don’t go overboard to the original cloud on the right.Smudge till you see things become foggy on the left like in the pic

Step 4:Now is making rain part,here i only show how it is done and how to make it looks nice is up to you all.Use small pixel white brush and brush them around randomly

-If they are close to each other,later it will become thick rain,so if they are far away,it is light rain

-Don’t make the dot too big or the rain will look dull

-Pay attention the size as the different in size will create depth for the rain as well as the background’s later.

Then just go to Motion Blur and choose whatever direction you want the rain fall,choose Distance wisely,too much will make the dot vanish,too less will make the rain looks dull,so it goes around 100 to 200.

Here is how it will look like:

Step 5:Making foggy land.

One of the easiest but also very random step.Basically,again,you smudge things in white color.Though,it is not totally random,while smudging you have to keep the height of the fog low and make it width become smaller as it goes nearer to the far-away trees

Additional step,smudge some black color/grey color into the fog to make it less flat.There is no brush set here,since i pretty much use your normal brush.

Note: Try to make mulit-layers fog,since it will help if you want to add something in between the fog later like step 6

Step 6: Adding your own things to make it more lively or just keep it as it is(which i believe is not very interesting).

-When you put things in,remember to make their layers stand between the fog layers,so that things can be blend in better.

Material

Good luck in making it.

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