Unlock the Background layer.
Change the foreground and background colors to:
Background
Choose the Gradient tool and select the Reflected Gradient and choose Foreground to Background.
Draw a gradient that starts from the bottom right and goes diagonally to the top left.
Open the Channels palette. (Window>Channels)
Create a new channel.
Fill this with 50% grey. (Edit>Fill)
Choose Filter>Pixelate>Color Halftone.
Use the following settings:
Control click the Alpha 1 channel and make sure that the area around the circles is the area selected. If it isn’t, inverse the selection (Control-I).
Switch back to the layers palette.
Hold down the Alt key and click the “create new layer” icon at the bottom of the palette.
Call this new layer Grid.
Make sure your color palette is the same foreground and background colors as when you originally did the gradient on the background and apply a reflected gradient (foreground to background) the opposite way from the way you painted the background.
Deselect (Control-D)
Choose Layer>Layer Styles>Bevel and Emboss.
Check off Bevels and Emboss and Drop Shadow and you can play with the settings to get slightly different effects. See below for the settings I chose.
Right click on the fx on the Grid layer. Choose Create Layers. This will put each effect on a different layer.
To get a different color for the grid you can create a new layer between the top 2 layers and fill with a color of your choice and reduce this layer’s opacity to the desired level (around 25% is good).
That’s it.
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