Creating a brushed metal background

For this tutorial I will show you a simple way I learned to create a brushed metal type look.



Step 1. Create a new image of any size.

Step 2. Go to the tab on the top labeled "Filters" and go down the drop down menu and find "Render" then "Clouds" and then click plasma.

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Step 3. Once the Plasma options come up there will be a slider labeled turbulence, take it and slide it all the way to the right and then press ok.

Step 4. Your next step is to go up to the Colors tab on the top of your screen and click the Desaturate option when it drops down.

Your image should now look something like this.

Step 5. Now you need to go up to the top tab Filters and hover over over Blur and then select Motion Blur

Step 6. Set your Length to the maximum and your angle to 90 and hit ok.

and after all that you should have a pretty cool Brushed Metal image to work with that looks like this