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Metallic Background

Description: This is a very simple techique 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

User Comments

Bala | Nov/11/08 23:36

Very Nice and amazing tip. Thanks.

andy pandy | Nov/4/08 11:03

cute I love it

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lady t | Oct/4/08 04:58

love it~

Christie Bella | Sep/18/08 00:54

when 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 15:50

what if I have no patterns to use. where do I get some patterns at.

twelv3 | Apr/2/08 20:15

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Nidhi | Mar/5/08 20:31

It is really good & attractive .

Tom | Feb/6/08 11:48

Great one, specialy the last pattern wit the cross, when u scale it and connect few such parts, you have nice metal frame

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