Creating Backgrounds in Photoshop: (Tutorial)

In this tutorial we will see that how to create a new file and create background in Photoshop using fill.

You can create special background for your photograph using Fill option in Photoshop.

Step 1: Start Photoshop.
Step 2: Click “File > New’. New Dialogue box will be appeared on the screen.

You can give following things in new dialogue box.

* Name of the Image file
* Size of the image in width and height
* Resolution of the image
* Mode of colors
* Content in the image file

Name Of the Image File:
In name textbox type in an appropriate name of the image file you want.

Size of the image in width and height:
You can also specify size of the image in width and height by typing in their textboxes. Size of the image could be in inches, cm, pixels etc.

Resolution of the image:
Here you can specify resolution of the image whether it is 300, 400 or 600 choose the appropriate one.

Mode of colors:
Choose RGB color from the drop down list box.

Content in the image file:
In Content drop down, Choose “White” if you want to fill background with white. Choose “Background Color” if you want to fill the new file with Background color. This background color can be set from the toolbox as shown below.

When you click “set background color” button as marked in the above picture to change the background color a “Color Picker” dialogue box will be appeared on the screen. Choose the appropriate color for your background and then press “Ok” button to close the Color Picker dialogue box.

Choose “Transparent” if you want to remain the background transparent.

Step 3: then press “OK” button.

"White" Background Fill

"Backgroud Color" Background Fill

"Transparent" Background Fill

Step 4: Click “Edit > Fill”. Fill Dialogue box will be appeared on the screen.

There are many option that you can fill in the background of your image.
You can fill

Foreground color
Background color
Pattern
History
Black
50% Gray
White

Foreground and Background colors are which you set from the toolbox.

Step 5: Now choose “Pattern” from the “use” drop down list box. Custom pattern drop down list box will get activate. Now choose any one pattern of your choice from the list. And then choose “Mode” as normal. Now you can specify opacity in percentage. What actually opacity is. Opacity means if you specify 100%, then background would be 100% opaque and 0% opacity means the background would be completely transparent.

Step 6: Leave opacity at 100% and press “Ok” button.

Now try with different opacity and do the experiment with fill.

You can change custom patterns by doing the following steps.

Click “Edit > Fill > Custom Pattern”. Now click the button as shown in the following picture.
A popup menu will be appeared on the screen choose “pattern2.pat” or “patterns.pat” from the popup menu. A confirmation window will be appeared on the screen press “Ok” to load the pattern in the custom pattern.

Now you can use newly loaded custom patterns for your background. We can also create user defined patterns in Photoshop by defining new patterns. I will write on this in my forthcoming post.