Photoshop Tutorial - Metallic Background

Metallic Background

This is a very simple technique to creating a metallic textured background..

Create a new document of any size you want. I made mine 600x600

Now go to Edit » Fill

in the box that popup, select "Pattern" for "Use", and in the Custom Pattern option, select this pattern (CLICK TO SEE SCREENSHOT). Then click OK

Now go to Filter » Distort » Wave

Adjust your setting so its similar to mine: VIEW

Now just hold down the CTRL key, and press the "F" key 10 times (reapply the wave effect 10 times). Now you should get something very similar to mine on the left.

Now to give it a little bit of color, you can use the Hue and Saturation option, Image » Adjustments » Hue/Saturation. Make sure you check the "Colorize" box. Set the "Hue" bar to: 210, "Saturation" to: 14, leave the Lightness at 0.

Next, to make the image a little sharper, go to Filter » Sharpen » Sharpen

There you go :)

You can also apply this trick to any type of shapes or patterns, see my examples of before and after images below.
The orginal image	Applied the wave filter about 20 times

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haider Jul/15/2010 19:37very nice and so beautiful i like it

rashmi Jun/09/2010 02:38nic patern its very cool for back rest

Supratim Saha Apr/08/2010 19:50Very good eefect. But In the edit fill I couldnot make active the Pattern pop-up box . How i'll do that please tell me.

israr Feb/20/2010 03:29Very kool

me Feb/11/2010 12:48Thanks! So, cool!

priyanka Jan/15/2010 05:17its very easy and good

doelay Dec/13/2009 20:34very thank I am very like this effect.

Andreea Nov/06/2009 17:55yes, I agree with you Shira. Me too. And at the end I used some contrast in order to make some parts much darker. Now it really seems metal. Thanks

Corrina Aug/11/2009 13:03Very cool effect!

pisbott king Aug/07/2009 01:16dosent look like metal damn!!

remz Jul/28/2009 12:44pang amateurs lang bring it on a new concept and cool workz

hari May/13/09 19:04its great

ikedum teddy Apr/27/09 19:33i wanted to ask how i could warp objeects and graphics in adobe photoshop 7.0 and other fiters which are non existence in 7.0

Bala Nov/11/08 23:36Very Nice and amazing tip. Thanks.

andy pandy Nov/4/08 11:03cute I love it

Wincent Oct/30/08 17:31Phew, amateurs...

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lady t Oct/4/08 04:58love it~

Christie Bella Sep/18/08 00:54when you get to the Wave Filter Step, i wasn't quite getting the same result although i was able to fix it very easily by adding just one little adjustment. So, ok, when you get to the FILTER> DISTORT> WAVE Step, if after applying the filter, using the exact same settings as what is in the screenshot, you're resulting image looks a bit off, or different, from the image in the example, you may need to do one extra thing. Follow the steps the same, and when you get to the FILTER> DISTORT> WAVE Step, apply the exact same settings as well- except, before clicking the "OK" button, you are going to click on the "RANDOMIZE" button a few times- i think i clicked it about 3-4 times, until you get something that looks like the image above in the tutorial's example. Although the preview image for the filter is very small, making it difficult to clearly see the details, you should still be able to see when it looks correct. Now you can click "OK", and go back to following the tutorial again *you will see after you repeat the filter (CTRL+F) 10 times that you have the pretty swirls now like the example image :)

Gary Hastings Aug/16/08 15:50what if I have no patterns to use. where do I get some patterns at.

twelv3 Apr/2/08 20:15u da best twelv3@yahoo.com

Nidhi Mar/5/08 20:31It is really good & attractive .

Tom Feb/6/08 11:48Great one, specialy the last pattern wit the cross, when u scale it and connect few such parts, you have nice metal frame

Meow House Dec/2/07 22:27I just tried this in PS6 and it came out great. I think the people having trouble maybe are not doing something right in the settings? I did have to do the initial wave about 20 times as opposed to 10, but that's no big deal. I also liked Shikodenius's suggestion to dupe the background layer and set it to overlay - it made it a little shinier for me. Great tut, super easy to do, thanks very much!

Anonomous Nov/27/07 02:12Awesome dude. I suck at photoshop but you've given me a new skill. Thanks.

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