brushed metal effect
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This brushed metal tutorial is one everyone wants to know how to do well, but most people stop short before a realistic effect is achieved. We are going to use a variety of methods, such as: Gradients, Noise, Blurs, Brushes, and Clouds.
I made a bee button using the same engraving techniques I covered in my
wood engraving how-to article, but you can find many other uses for creating a brushed metal effect. I am also offering up a
created image of the brushed metal texture I made for you to download.
Tools:
- Photoshop CS or higher
- Some expertise in Photoshop
- Download this brush that I created for you, and place the file into your Adobe Photoshop > Presets > Brushes > Adobe Photoshop Only folder.
Open Photoshop and create a new document to a larger size, dpi, color mode, etc. that you require (larger because we will have to crop off some excess in the process). Have your layers pallet and your tools pallet visible. Set your foreground color White and your background color Black.
Select your Gradient Tool from your tool bar, at the top I selected the Linear Gradient, normal, at 50%. Create a diagonal gradient on your document by dragging your mouse from one top corner to the opposite bottom corner and release.
Go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and select 40%, Gaussian, and check Monochromatic, hit OK.
Now, Filter > Blur > Motion Blur, and set it at Angle: 0 and Distance: 85, hit OK. You are going to have some ugly ends on the right and left side that you’ll need to crop off.
More textures are needed, so go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise and select 4%, Uniform, and check Monochromatic, hit OK.
Next, Filter > Brush Strokes > Sprayed Strokes and select length: 20, radius: 0, stroke direction: horizontal, hit OK.
Create a new layer on top of your metal layer. Flip your colors so that White is your foreground color, and Black is your background color. Select the brush tool and go to your Brush Preset Picker at the top of your screen.
Click the triangle pointing to the right which will open your Brushes pallet, select Calligraphic Brushes, hit OK to replace current brushes. Now, select the Flat 45px brush.
Click on the Brushes tab at the top right corner of your Photoshop screen. Click on and check Scattering. Let’s put the settings at Scatter 1000%, check Both Axes, Control: off, Count: 1, Count Jitter: 85%, Control: off.
Paint a few strokes on your new layer.
While still on the second layer, apply a Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur with a radius of 2. Set the opacity of this layer to 10%.
Create a new layer. Select the Brush tool and go to your Brush Preset Picker at the top of your screen, and Select the brush you downloaded, from me, called curved_buff.
Open the Brushes tab at the top right of your screen. Set the Brush Tip Shape options to Diameter: 212px, Angle: 31, Roundness: 61%, Check spacing at 100%.
Check and select Shape Dynamics, with settings at Size jitter: 0%, Angle jitter: 68%, Control off, Roundness Jitter: 0%, Control off.
Check and select Scattering. Check Both Axes at 299%, Control off, Count 7, Count Jitter 59%, Control off.
Paint on your second newly created layer with this brush for a few strokes.
Click Filter > Blur > Motion Blur at an Angle of 0 and a Distance of 30. Set this layer at an opacity of 15%.
Create a new layer. Filter > Render > Clouds
Filter > Render > Difference Clouds
Image > Adjustments > Invert
Image > Adjustments > Levels and set the Input Levels at 150, .10, 255.
Set the mode of this layer to Lighten and the Opacity to 10%.
Right click this third layer, and click Duplicate Layer, Click OK.
Go to Edit > Transform > Flip vertical
Click to select the bottom most layer. Click the half black half white circle at the bottom of your layers pallet to bring up the menu. Click Hue/Saturation. Set the Hue to 216. The Saturation to 9. And check Colorize.
Click OK and you are done.
Related posts:
- glowing magic in photoshop
- wood engraving effect
- image displacement mask
- image out of text
- free photoshop brushes
This entry was posted
on Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 pm and is filed under art & design tutorials.
