Photoshop tips: Creating a Brushed Metal Background

Photoshop tips help you learn more Graphics design. In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Brushed Metal Background using Photoshop. If you have any questions about this tutorial be sure to ask in the comments. Also, remember with all the tutorials. 

        Metal Background

 

Lets get started:

Your first step Create a new layer and fill it with a gray color. Select

Filter > Noise > Add Noise…. In the dialog box that appears, 

 Choose Uniform distribution with the Monochromatic option checked, as shown here. Vary the Amount based on how much contrast you want your brushed metal effect to have.

Next, select Filter

*Click: Blur

*Click: Motion Blur….

Set the Angle to 0 and adjust the Distance until you’re happy with the effect. Mine’s set to 113 pixels in this example.

 

You’ll notice some discrepancy between the center of your document, which has blurred as you expected it to, and its outer edges, which have not. Crop your document to get rid of the outer edges.

Your brushed metal background is complete! In the example shown here

                      Brushed Metal Background