Metal Texture

April 12th, 2009 | Tags: ,

Tutorial Description:

Learn how to make a metal texture, good for backgrounds and the such.

Make a new image. 150×150.

Edit > Fill > 50 Grey.

Then go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise with the amount set to 22%. Make sure the distribution is set to uniform and monochromatic is checked.

Now go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur. Make sure the angle is set to -45 degrees and the distance is set to 20px.

Now go to Filter > Render > Lighting Effects and make sure they are these settings::
Light Type: Omni
Intensity: 21
Light Colour: #FFFFFF
Gloss: 100
Material: 100
Exposure: 0
Ambience: 10

Feel free to change some steps to make it better and nicer. Also you can use this for anything, and any style.

Leave a comment | Trackback
  1. Olga
    July 10th, 2010 at 04:35
    Reply | Quote | #1

    I’m trying to work with metal texture, but at the last screen (lighting effects) I couldn’t see light color anywhere (so, I couldn’t enter #ffffff, though it might be default. Also, on your snapshot the circle surrounding the square, meanwhile I have this circle only in the center of the square, and I couldn’t change its size.
    In other words, I couldn’t get the result.
    Any advice? (I’m working in Photoshop CS4)

« »
TOP