Shiny Brushed Metal

[LokenII]

In this tutorial, we are going to learn to easily create brushed metal. This tutorial will work from Photoshop 7 to the current version. Let us begin. First create a document of 500px square and then put a linear gradient over it with the colours: 554c51 and 867f8f, the ligher of the two being at the top as is demonstrated here.


The next step is to duplicate this layer and then go to FILTER > NOISE > ADD NOISE and then input
these settings.



Now, use the rectangular marquee tool to edit off each side of this layer like i did here.

Now, go to FILTER > BLUR > MOTION BLUR and input these settings.


You should now have something like this:


All that remains is to change the layer blending mode to Colour Dodge and reduce the opacity to 89% (just to take the bright edge of it) and then you're done.
Looks like this.


And experiment too!

[N3moDK]

nice tut i liked it



this was made with a little help from your tut

[wfcamb]

I tried your tutorial out and noticed that you said to set the blending option to OVERLAY.. I don't get that effect using overlay.. Instead, I get it when I set that top layer to COLOR DODGE. Nice tutorial though..


*EDIT:
Here's my result:

[koshkagoddess]

Here's mine.

[HolySparda]

This is a kewl effect to use on a Transformers' Sign !!

THX