Photoshop Article

In todays session I managed to complete half of the overall article concerning raster and vector graphics.
Most of the time was spent up creating the background and text/image frames.
I created them by using effects.

This picture is of the effects menu which was used to create the background, you can see that I used bevel and emboss, to make the gradient more blocky and 3D, stroke, to line the gradient background and make it more interesting, inner shadows and inner glows are used again for the gradient background.

The colour, gradient and pattern overlays were used to make the purple colour that sits over the gradient background.

The purple  omes from the colour overlay.

You can see the overlay starting at the bottom, full of colour, and the ends at the top in a white colour, this comes from the gradient overlay.

You may not see it, but the article has a pattern covering everything, this comes from the pattern overlay.