Use the best of Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop to create these trendy background design patterns.
Author: Matt Kloskowski
Matt Kloskowski is the Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. He has authored and co-authored five books on Photoshop and Illustrator and teaches an advanced Photoshop course for Sessions.edu. In addition to being an Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop and a Macromedia Flash Certified Developer, Matt is a regular contributor to Photoshop User and Layers magazines and writes weekly columns for several digital imaging websites.
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nice one… Thank you very much
I’m new with illustrator. Though this tutorial seems as a product of years of experience. I just got amazed by watching these lessons.
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Nice tutorial, on http://myphotoshopbrushes.com/brushes/id/245 you can find Blend Brushes made using this technic.
Why don’t you leave the pasted AI graphic in vectors? Convert it in a smart object and you can make nearly all the things, you’ve done with it. The difference is, that with a smart object you can change the shape in AI everytime.
Rendering the layer is also always possible but with a duplicate, okay?
Cheers.
Great tutorial! I’ve been wondering how to do this for the longest and now I’ll be able to use this technique for a project that I’m currently working on. Thanks a lot!
I very admire this website, I very like adobe product. If you can pleasle give to download your tutorial.
Wonderful stuff. Really encouraging
Thank you for this tutorial! I’m still learning Illustrator after years of Photoshop use and nothing else. It was very user-friendly.
Interesting tutorial! Thank You!
I was looking hard to find a teacher who could teach me especialy after effects. Nobody could take the responcibility to do that. Now I think that I can do it my self through this site. Thank you very much.
i am not good in english but i understand very much from your tutorial
thanks & regards
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Its easier to understand once its been Kloskowski-ized. Thanx
Hi. thanks for the great tutorial. where did that nice dark blue blended background come from?
Very nice and easy to follow tutorial. Thanks a lot!
thanks dear it’s very cool design
Sounds weird, but whenever I try to copy and paste my line disappears. I recently bought CS4 so maybe that’s the issue. I’m a bit new to Illustrator, too. If anyone can shed light on the issue that would be great!
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very nice
Just have a little problem, i got it working the first time but everytime i pick the option “paste infront”, all it does is create a small line..not a direct copy of the first shape i made with the pen tool.
Does anyone know this issue??
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very nice and cool tutorial, this is very attraction and professional. I hope more like this tutorials can see later…
Really, great thank you
great tut man.
Great tutorial Matt, thanks so much.
Been a freelance designer for about a year now, so pretty new to the professional industry, but nice to have a site like this where you can see a nice, quick “this is how you do that cool effect you saw on istock” tutorial.
This is the best video tutorial I’ve ever used….thank you SO much!
hey you do know that you do not have to make a new layer you can just hit control E
great tutorial!!!
why cant i see the video. it only appears the adobe advrt.
Enjoyed hearing and seeing you at Photoshop World in Boston. Thanks for explaining everything so well. You make it so simple.
Fantastic! Brilliant results with minimal skills required…Thanks again!
Hey, thanx for the tutorial!
One question, do both paths have to be on the same layer? The blend effect is different when they aren’t, why?
wow, I’ve been wondering how to get this effect,
thanx for sharing it with us Matt
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That was cool! It looks complicated and hi-tech, but it was simple!
Excellent tut! Thanks so much!
thx
That was interesting, i knew how to get that line effect with envelope warp, but never thought of the blend tool, that was cool thanx.
goood
cool… Interesting… thx
thank you so much…luv it!
this make my day !
one are very helpful——-
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Very clear tutorial! Even me, with my bad English understood all you told us!
Thank you very much for this tutrial! 
)) Great!
Yes, I don’t speak English very well but this tutorial was very simple and useful! Thank you!
Matt, that is so cool, using both programs! Thanks
I added render>clouds behind, with a slight layer mask. Nice effect!
thanks for this great tutorial