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In this episode, Dave shows viewers how they can quickly make a cool background graphic.
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Yeah this technique is definitely pretty cool. I did a very similar tutorial on Creative Beacon roughly a year ago. It is fairly straight forward, but if you need more information, or an alternate example, you can check it out here: http://www.creativebeacon.com/create-a-psychedelic-image-in-photoshop/