Shiny Brushed Metal

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.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush1.jpg

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

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush2.jpg

Now, use the rectangular marquee tool to edit off each side of this layer like i did here. http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush3.jpg

Now, go to FILTER > BLUR > MOTION BLUR and input these settings.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush4.jpg

You should now have something like this:
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush5.jpg

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.
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush6.jpg

And experiment too!
http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p...kys/brush7.jpg

nice tut ;) i liked it :D

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/8449/punisherxm3.png

this was made with a little help from your tut :eek:

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:
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s...fcdbanner1.jpg

Here's mine.
http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j8...periment12.png

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

THX :)