18 Lighting Effects Tutorials to Create Abstract Backgrounds

Abstract Effect can serve as a vibrant desktop background, a mysterious webdesign header or they can be beautiful art pieces by themselves. Abstract is the most important element in the overall look and feel of the design. You must have seen many examples where designers create and implement cool backgrounds in website design to impress clients and visitors. In this post you’ll find best tutorials around web to master abstract and lighting effects to Create Cool Abstract Backgrounds.

1. Abstract Background of Colored Bars

In this tutorial, you will learn short but attractive way to create a graphic for backgrounds, wallpapers, greeting cards, designs, and all that other good stuff. You will learn a simple Photoshop trick that you can easily manipulate for your daily needs.

2. Abstract Colorful Background with Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create an abstract colorful background with bokeh effect using Photoshop’s drawing tools, blending modes, and lighting techniques.

3. Create an Abstract Design with Patterns in Photoshop

4. Abstract Starfield Background in Photoshop

In the tutorial you will learn how to mix different shapes, brushes and blending modes in Photoshop CS5 to create awesome space scene.

5. Abstract Wallpaper In Photoshop and Illustrator

In this tutorial you will be creating abstract shapes using the Pen Tool and Shape Tools in Illustrator and then using those shapes to produce an abstract wallpaper in Photoshop using various color blending techniques, textures and transformation tools.

6. Bright Abstract Diagonal Lines Background in Photoshop CS5

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to easily create a bright abstract diagonal lines background in Adobe Photoshop CS5 using gradients, brushes and Hue/Saturation adjustments.

7. Colourful Swirl

This tutorial shows you how to create then combine multiple swirl effects to achieve the result below.

8. Custom Shapes and Texture to add Extra Flavour to Your Design in Photoshop

9. Awesome Digital Bokeh Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial will show you how to create a digital bokeh effect in Photoshop. The process is very easy and we will be using the super powerful Brush Engine, one of the coolest things in Photoshop.

10. Really cool Eclipse Effect in Photoshop

This tutorial with the beautiful outcome below is brought to you yet again by Fabio Sasso. It uses multiple techniques from other tutorials to create this piece that was once used as Abduzeedo’s footer.

11. Leopard Aurora Borealis Photoshop Tutorial

Speaking about popular effects, here’s a nice Mac OSX Leopard-style wallpaper tutorial from DesignNerd.

12. Light and Glow Effect In Photoshop

This Photoshop effect tutorial covers the creation of several different light and glow effects in Photoshop. The effects in outcome consist of smoke, light trails, sparkles, stars and bokeh effects. Luckily it’s pretty simple to create each of these effects in Photoshop.