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This week, Corey is inspired by a Hollywood poster to figure out how to create a colorful background pattern.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

20 Comments

  1. GabyB said on — November 21, 2008 @ 4:15 pm

    Nice like always, not much to say :)

  2. jimmie said on — November 22, 2008 @ 7:49 am

    I am interested to know about adobe especially after effecet and other related issues. for the sake of knowldge. if you bale to send me a titourial in my e-mail i will be happy, from Asmara. ERITREA.

  3. Richard said on — November 22, 2008 @ 3:28 pm

    Would that I had 1/10th of Corey’s talents!

  4. Helmut said on — November 23, 2008 @ 4:11 am

    the tutorial stop at the layer with 50% gray? what happend

  5. Daniel Enloe said on — November 24, 2008 @ 11:47 am

    Very nice pattern inspiration

  6. sinead said on — November 25, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    It’s like you’ve read my mind! This is the exact thing I was looking for. Thank you for making it so easy. Love your site.

  7. RaPsODIaS said on — November 26, 2008 @ 10:46 pm

    Very nice tutorial. Green is not my favorite color but is ok.

    Sry for my english.

  8. Amanda said on — November 29, 2008 @ 10:08 pm

    This is great! So simple yet it looks so nice! A great idea! :)

  9. jhoy said on — November 30, 2008 @ 7:17 am

    i have a photoshop in my computer,i want to get familiarize first with the pallette tool before i begin…could you help me?..please…thanks in advance..i’ve watched some of your tutorial and i find it’s too helpful…two thumbs up for you…love your site…

  10. W Photography said on — January 1, 2009 @ 11:04 am

    Hello,

    I think this tutorial is a great learning tool for me however do you provide more on line tutorials are on line classes. I am trying to expand my knowledge in the photoshop and I really just need to get more information and tutorials and websites for trials for photoshop so that I can enhance my skills.

    Thanks in advance for all your help

    W Photography

  11. Krishnendu said on — January 5, 2009 @ 6:58 am

    Just Fantastic!

  12. Einstein's evil step twin said on — January 19, 2009 @ 12:43 am

    Well done! If skill and genius were hard candy, millions of people would pop him in their mouths every day…

  13. Mark said on — January 19, 2009 @ 9:08 pm

    Thats pretty darn cool. I do a lot of Senior Portraits and am always looking for new ways to make them look cool. I think Ill do some shots on a white background and then apply this to it and see what the reaction is. I’m pretty sure they`ll love it!

    Thanks so much!

  14. mary said on — February 24, 2009 @ 10:21 am

    you are very good at what you do i have a black and white photo and i cant color it i had it for five moths and it is still black and white is there anyway you can help me please thank you please let me know peaney@live.com thanks again

  15. Steve said on — March 12, 2009 @ 9:32 am

    Wow!!!… another one to remember!… thanks Corey!

    Cool stuff! ;)

  16. Tariq Iqbal Bhatti said on — March 26, 2009 @ 12:08 am

    your website is very good for learnig nad knowledge
    and development work professionally,
    thank

  17. Minerva said on — October 14, 2009 @ 9:06 am

    This really sucked. I couldn’t get what to do with the tilde key or the command key since I’m on a PC and the after-effect of the image really wasn’t that great. Nothing that you can’t do with a little multiply effect alongwith darkened saturation.

    And I see that many people have asked the same question I have about the luminosity but no one on the website seems to ever bother to reply.

  18. Corey Barker said on — October 14, 2009 @ 10:09 am

    It’s the same as going into the channels panel and holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on the RGB channel preview.

  19. Marino said on — December 11, 2009 @ 1:46 pm

    Great Corey I’m doing some crazy things with your tutorials…….Thank you from Italy.

  20. Avi said on — February 23, 2011 @ 5:42 am

    As always fantastic! is there a tutorial on how to create the image with the outer glow that you add at the end?

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