Digital surface design

Repeating vector pattern:

Since the project is about CD albums, I decided to use musical notes for my repeating pattern as it relates to the theme.

Letter wallpaper:

I used the letter 'R' for Rihanna which was then rotated/flipped to create the basic shape and then I had to repeat the pattern across the whole page to get this effect.

Rainbow background:

This was made in Photoshop, using lots of different layers, tools and effects to reach this outcome.

1. Add a gradient of black to white on the background layer.

2. Filter-Wave. Set the number of generators to 10 and change the type to square.

3. Add another gradient to the background layer, use the pre installed rainbow gradient.

4. Change the angle of the gradient to 0, the blend mode to linear burn and the opacity to 80%.

5. In a new layer add another black to white gradient and change the blend mode to soft light.

6. Make a new document with size 50x100 (to make a brush)

7. Fill it in black and then define brush pre-set to save this as a brush tool.

8. Go to the brush window, set the spacing to 350

9. Go to shape dynamics, set the size jitter to 100%, scattering to 1000%, the count to 1 and count jitter to 100%.

10. Finally for the brush set the opacity jitter to 100%.

11. Go back to the original file, select the brush tool, make it white and then start clicking over the background for the pixels to appear at random on the page.

12. Finally change the blend mode to overlay.

Bokeh wallpaper:

This was also made in Photoshop, with a few different layers, but it was less complex than the previous design.

1. Open a new document, make the background transparent and draw a black circle over the top.

2. Reduce the fill to 50% and add a stroke of 10pixels.

3. Select the circle and go to define brush pre-set to save it.

4. Open a new document and make the background a dark grey colour.

5. Make a new layer and add a gradient with the four colours yellow, blue, pink and orange.

6. Change the angle to the gradient to 45 and the blending mode to overlay.

7. Make a new folder and change the blending mode to colour dodge.

8. Select to brush and change the colour to white.

9. Go to the brush window, change the spacing to 200%, size jitter to 100%, minimum diameter 50%, scattering to 1000%, count to 5 and set both the options in other dynamics to 50%.

10. Make strokes with the brush onto the background to get random circles to appear.

11. Add a 20px Gaussian blur for the back layer.

12. Reduce the size of the brush and repeat the previous steps but this time making the Gaussian blur 4.5px

13. For the final layer, reduce the brush size even further and make strokes with it.