Brushed Metal

Brushed Metal

Brushed metal effects are, without a shadow of a doubt, extremely popular amongst all Photoshop users. The reasons behind this are simple - no other single effect is as useful, or as simple to create.

Author: Biorust

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Turn a texture into a seamlessly tiled background

Tiled backgrounds are great for both website backgrounds and in all kinds of Photoshop work. They are particularly useful when working with textures where you need a larger overall background than the small image you have to work with. In this quick tutorial I'll take you through taking a texture and turning it into a background image ready for seamless tiling. It's a useful little technique that's been around forever.

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Create a Grunge Street Sign

This tutorial will teach you how to create a street sign that will look old and worn. The effect is a modification of the Destination NBA advertisements.

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Quick wood texture in 3 steps

Create wood texture in only 3 steps using clouds and fibers filter and Hue/Saturation image adjustment in Photoshop.

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Creating Texture with Brushes

Video tutorial showing how to use brushes with layer effects to create realistic surface textures.

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Golden texture

This one is even faster than creating a paper background with Adobe Photoshop. It´s just about applying 3 filters in the right places and the right order. Simple as that! The beauty is that you can repeat the steps countless times and you will always get a new and different result each time.

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