Open a new canvas the size you want. Insert a square and fill it with the color of your choice. Then click on Format - Resize Object to fit canvas – Stretch to fit.
To add the grungy part, go to Effects, Paintbrush, Freehand. Choose the color black and start painting! Paint your canvas randomly with the brush until you have all the grunge you want on your canvas then click Done. (see below image)
Doesn’t look like much; but now we will do the finessing!!
Click on Touchup and Blending Brush. Choose a start position. Here I used a start position in the blue and started my blending on the right hand side. Just ran my blending brush up and down (or across) the page randomly in strokes as long as I could. Move the start position to the blue or the center and keep going.
Keep moving the start position to the blue parts
Blend to your heart’s content! It takes some time; but don’t be careful with it. Keep changing your start position and blend, blend, blend. Do it until you like the look you have achieved! Click on DONE and you are!!!
This is my finished background
I love the choppy look but if you want it to look smoother, you just have to make longer strokes and blend a bit more. You can even add the Gaussian blur to “smooth” it a bit.
Play with this! Instead of Paint and Freehand, you could also choose Paint and Artstroke and any stroke you like - I love, Chalked – Rolled. This will actually create a new layer with the Artstroke on it. You would have to flatten the layers to do the blending.
Have fun with it and try different colors too. Enjoy!
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