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Painting hard surface textures

Learn how to create a dirt, grunge, slimy hard texture suitable for 3D art and games.

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Dirty wall texture

Learn the basics of creating a dirty wall texture by mixing two images and doing some image manipulation.

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Grungy texture

Learn how to make some grungy texture with dirt and scratches.

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Perplexing Plasmids

Photoshop has a wealth of tools available to design funky and downright outlandish effects. This tutorial definitely belongs in the latter camp, and the results apparently resemble a plasmid under an electron microscope or so I've been told.

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Creating a Mac style Background

This tutorial is about making a Mac style background. You can use these in all sorts of situations, including the obvious - your desktop as well as part of your designs or for corporate work (powerpoint presentations, flash work etc). Naturally you wouldn't want to use this exact set of steps, but following them will give you a good idea of the technique.

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Create a stone texture

How to make a realistic stone texture that isn't as fake looking as in other tutorials.

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Quick and Fun Backgrounds

Using a gradient and the Render> Difference Clouds filter, we can quickly create a number of different types of backgrounds. You can produce retro tie-dye 60s-looking backgrounds, more psychedelic looks, and even some elegantly-complex patterns.

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Trendy Background Effects (Take 1)

There are lots of great background techniques around, many involving a huge number of layers and a variety of blending modes. Here's a quick way to simulate one of those "looks".

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Thick Diagonal gunge Lines

Everyone knows, or can guess how to create, simple diagonal line patterns in Photoshop. That is... the 1px line patterns. If you need them to be thicker, it gets a lot harder. This tutorial details a simple technique that will solve all your problems... and give you ideas for funkier lines too!

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Rough Metal Texture

Create a simple rough metal texture in a few easy steps, strictly for beginners

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