Simple background creation tutorial

Simple background creation tutorial
1)create a document of 500px X 500px
2)Set your Foreground color to:#d97227 and Background color: #ff9400
3)Add a new layer
4)Pick the Single row marquee tool and click once on the newly created layer.
5) Now go to, Filter -> Render -> Clouds
6) Now press, Ctrl + T, to make a transformation
7) Pick the handle and stretch it to fit the height of the document
8) Now apply the transformation
9) Add Noise by going to, Filter ->noise
10) that it by this time u will get a cool background
11) Add some simple text .you can even add your name:)
few Photoshop tips:
1) to delete a layer without being asked, r u sure??: Shift + Alt + Click on trash icon
2)To make your image 100%, Double click the Zoom tool in toolbar
3)Hold Alt while clicking on the eye icon beside the layer will hide all other layers.

I hope these tricks will save few seconds of your time.

This method is to create a simple background. To edit the photos see this.