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So, I was browsing today and saw a Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 with a beautiful wallpaper on it at Engadget ([link]) and thought to myself... Can I make one that looks sort of like it using only GIMP?

And guess what? I could!

To do it yourself:
- First create a black layer
- Over it you create another layer that you fill using the Filters > Render > Clouds > Solid Noise. Play with the values until you get a decent set of clouds. Make it's transparency value 10 to 30 percent.
- On top of it you create a gray (#cccccc) box as wide as your wallpaper and (in my case) 10 pixels high on a new layer. Let's name it "line"
- Duplicate it three times,
- Gaussian Blur the lower one to 70 px, the middle 30 px and the upper just 10px.
- Place the original on top of it all.
- Create yet another layer and fill it with a black Pattern (I used Stripes Fine)... *I know they used the brushed metal texture, but i liked it better with scanlines*. We will call this layer "scanlines"
- Create another new layer and fill it with any of the Full Saturation Spectrum gradients (or whichever you create or like) and set the layer Mode to Color.

- You will get some lighter linear flares (three to be exact) around the pink, yellow and light blue areas... I used the iWarp filter to make it look like ... i don't know... like a sonic boom.

Place your "scanlines" behind your gray boxes... et voila!

Now that you know how to make them (with GIMP, which is free) you can DIY in your awesome color combos and resolutions... Or you could download mine and tweak the Hue and size. Maybe add to it.

Comments are really appreciated.

NOTE:
No brands where harmed during the creation of this Wallpaper... Xperia is a brand name property of Sony-Ericsson.
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=naan21 Apr 19, 2011
Its beautiful :3

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~liquid-snake Apr 21, 2011
Thanks :)

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=naan21 Apr 22, 2011
:) welcome.

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Mood: Joy ~proto-typ3 Mar 5, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
My first try!
Not too happy with it :iconbritishohnoes::iconmadlynotimpressedplz:
How did you make such good clouds :?
Anyway, nice wallpaper and great how-to :)
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~liquid-snake Apr 1, 2011
It's all in the trial and error, sometimes we get nicer clouds :)

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~lenrok1234 Jan 18, 2011
EXTRA
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~XxFallenNightxX Oct 16, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
this is cool too xD reminds me of something i tried to recreate. this is the one i made [link] this is the site i got the idea from [link]

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Please stop by my gallery [link] I've got tons of desktop wallpaper for use, as well as some drawings of mine :)
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~liquid-snake Oct 29, 2010
So I take you didn't saw my tutorial for gimp there?
[link]

See, I had already made this wallpaper long before Zee decided to do his own photoshop tut, so he kindly allowed me to publish mine as well :P

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~XxFallenNightxX Oct 29, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
ah i see, yh i tried using the tut for photoshop in gimp...had to change some things tho haha, wish i found ur tut first tho xD would have saved me some time. :p

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Mood: Love ~lkrapper Aug 2, 2010
thank you :D
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