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Making Textures
This tutorial is for Photoshop 7, and assumes at least a very basic knowledge of the program.
In this tutorial, we're going to learn how to create textures. If you're wanting to use your textures in wallpapers, then you need to make the texture a size that would fit the wallpapers; eg, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024, and so on. But since we're just learning the basics, we're just going to use a 400x400 canvas for this. Go to File>New, and create a new image with the following settings:
Now click OK, and you'll have a white 400x400 canvas. Create a new layer. Layer>New>Layer...
Now we're going to add a filter called the 'Clouds filter'. Make sure your colours are at the default of black forground, and white background.
And then go to Filter>Render>Clouds:
Now your canvas should look like this:
Duplicate the layer with the clouds on. Layer>Duplicate Layer...
Now, go to Filter>Brush Strokes>Crosshatch...
A new window should popup.
Now, you can play around with those settings, until you get something you like. Basically, this will give the layer a painted effect. Click OK.
Now, set the top layer (the one you have just done the crosshatch effect on), to Overlay, in the layers palette.
Now your canvas should look like this:
Now, we're going to add a bit of colour. Pick a random brush (any round one that came with the program will do). Now, I'm going to use orange shades, but you can use whatever colours you like.
Create a new layer, and just draw as much colour, using as many different shades as you like, onto the new layer, until you end up with something like this:
Now, select Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur, and set it to around 35.0:
The colour layer should look something like this:
Now, like you set the crosshatch layer to Overlay, we're going to set this layer to Colour, so that the image will look like this:
Now, select all.
And Copy Merged.
And then paste as a new layer:
Now, under Filter>Blur, select Motion Blur. Set the angle to around 40 degrees, and the distance to 999 pixels. Click OK.
Now set this layer to Multiply. You should have something looking like this:
Duplicate the Multiplied layer, and set it to screen. Now, using the selection tool  (or Polygonal Lasso Tool as Adobe like to call it), make some random cut outs across the Screened layer:
Select the selected areas, and deselect the area.
Now, using the Free transform tool, rotate the screened layer so it points toward the top left corner, and stretch it to fit the square.
Now, using the motion blur tool again, blur it in a 40 degree angle again, but this time, keep the distance around the 110 mark.
Now your texture should look like this. I'm gonna call it finished, but you can always add more to it, even more colours, or more effects. The filters are there to be played with!
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