Click the Rectangle Tool in the toolbar on the left. Draw a square or rectangle large enough to cover your workspace. We will apply a
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gradient to the background. Find your
Gradient Box. If you can’t find it, go to the top of the window and click Window > Gradients. Click the arrows beside Gradient to expand the box. Now click the gradient bar to apply the gradient.
You will notice that there are only two sliders on the gradient bar, the white slider and the black slider. We will need to add a new slider. Click in the middle of the two sliders to create a new slider. Click right below the gradient bar. Now you should have three gradient sliders. Next, we will change the color of the gradients.
Double click the first slider on the left. Then double click the color fill box in the toolbar on the right. Change the color to #FF00FF. Click OK to apply it. Double click the middle slider and change the color to #FFCCFF.
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Change the last slider color to #FF00FF. Now you will need to change the angle to 90. Type 90 in the angle field. That will rotate the gradient. That is the background part of the Butterfly Wallpaper.
Now we will start adding the butterflies. I told you in the beginning that you could position the butterflies how you wanted them. I was just going to show you how to create them. By now you should have the butterflies dingbat installed.
Grab the text tool and type a lowercase q. Change the font style to KR Butterflies. Change the color to white or whatever color you want to use. Change the size of the butterfly to what you want. You can copy and paste the butterflies to create more. You can also rotate them to give them different looks. The other butterfly that I used was created by typing the letter M. You can type other letters to get other butterflies. Play around with the positions, colors, and size and you can come up with a great looking Butterfly Wallpaper. When you have finished, save the wallpaper and set it as your desktop wallpaper.
