Making a Marty Turco Wallpaper
Hello everyone! Today we’re going to be learning how to make our favorite athlete’s wallpaper. In this case, we’ll be making a Marty Turco wallpaper, but feel free to use any professional athlete (or yourself). Keep in mind that you’ll need a good knowledge of the Pen Tool, and a basic knowledge on how to Render images in order to successfully complete this tutorial.
The first step of making our Marty Turco wallpaper/poster is getting a picture of Marty himself. An action shot is preferred, but use whatever you can find. I’ll be using this picture:
Once you have your picture of your athlete, you (obviously) need to create a new document in Photoshop. The size of your document is really up to you, but I’ll be using 1280x1024 since it’s the size of my screen resolution.
When you have your size figured out, we’re going to but a black background on the first layer, then put the render on top of it.
After you’ve placed your render, we’re going to lay down some simple brush work. Basically just take a large, soft, round brush and make a rough sketch where you think light would look good in your wallpaper. Make sure to do this on a new layer.
Once you have your basic brushing down, we’re going to make our first big change to our wallpaper. Grab a C4D render, it doesn’t matter how it looks, but make sure that it’s one of the team’s major colors.
Don’t worry about making your C4D render placement perfect. We’re going to duplicate the C4D render two times and randomly place them in the document. Be sure the rotate them (ctrl+t) to give them a different look then the original.
When you’re happy with your placement/rotation, you’ll need to merge the three C4D layers together. To do this, just go to layer – Merge Down. Repeat as necessary. Once you’ve combined them all into one layer, we’re going to apply a radial blur to them. With your merged C4D layer highlighted, go to Filter – Blur – Radial Blur. Changer the blur type to ‘zoom’ and the amount to ‘100’. Additionally, set the blur center in the direction of your render. Your settings should look something like this:
Hit OK. You should get something like I have below:
As of right now, the C4D makes the whole thing look too dark. To fix this, we’re going to change the blending of the layer to “Color Dodge”. This will give our C4D a much lighter and energetic color.
As you can easily see now, the C4D looks much better.
Our next step to our wallpaper is making is making some thick lines that come out from our render. This step requires knowledge of the pen tool, so if you don’t know how to use it, now’s a great opportunity to learn. These lines are similar to what we did on the Template Tutorial’s header. Here’s what our final result will be like:
