How to Make Shiny Metallic Textures in CS3
Textures are backgrounds you apply to objects within an image. They add diversity to images, buttons and text, bringing them to life. Photoshop CS3 allows you to use existing textures or to create your own. Metallic textures are shiny and often black or gray. You can use them for 3D metal structures, such as motorcycles or license plates. In Photoshop CS3, noise effect adds random pixels, motion blur adds movement and lighting effects polish the image.
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Instructions
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Click "File" and "New" from the Photoshop CS3 menu. Enter "500" pixels for the height and width within the New dialog box. Choose a black background and click "OK."
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Select "Filter," "Noise" and "Add Noise." The Add Noise dialog box opens. Click "Uniform" under "Distribution," and set "Amount" to 20 percent. Click "OK."
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Click "Filter," "Render" and "Lighting Effects."
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Add a check mark beside "on" in the "Lighting Effects" dialog box. Set the remaining options as follows:
Light type: Spotlight
Intensity: 52
Focus: 22
Gloss: 92
Material: 100
Exposure: 53
Ambiance: 28 -
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Click "OK," and then select "Window" and "Layers" to open the "Layers" palette.
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Go to the Layers palette and double-click the "Background Layer." Click "OK" in the resulting dialog box. The layer becomes "Layer 0."
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Drag "Layer 0" into the "Create a new layer" button at the bottom of the palette to duplicate it.
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Click the "Eye" icon to the left of "Layer 0" to hide it.
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Select "Layer 0 copy" in the "Layers" palette to change its texture.
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Click "Image," "Adjustments" and "Brightness/Contrast" in the menu. This opens the "Brightness/Contrast" dialog box.
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Drag the "Brightness" slider to the right to lighten the shiny metallic texture. Drag the slider to the left to darken it.
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Move the "Contrast" slider to the right to add more contrast. Move it to the left to add less contrast. Click "OK."
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References
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