Textures can form a principal element in your designs. They add details to images, giving a great deal of depth to a composition. Textures could come in the forms of high resolution images such as detailed surfaces of rocks, fabric, wood etc or can just be regular pictures. We have produced 7 exclusive free metal textures for you to download along with a step by step tutorial showing how they were made.

Step 1

In this short tutorial, we’ll go into the basics of creating one of the metal textures. Starting off with a new document with a size of  500 x 500 pixels, create a new layer. Then go to Filter >Render > Clouds to add a Clouds effect to this layer. Press Ctrl+F twice to apply this effect twice.

Step 2

Head on over to Filter  > Texture and select the Texture type as Sandstone and make the following adjustments below:

The result:

Step 3

Adjust the tone of the image a bit to reduce its brightness by pressing Ctrl+M for the Curves Dialog box.

Step 4

With the Ellipse Tool (U) selected, draw a circle while holding the Shift for a perfect circle and then fill with black.

Step 5

Add another layer and select the Elliptical Marquee Tool (M). Draw a circle slightly larger than the previous one and with the Gradient Tool (G), create a gradient transiting from grey to white. Merge the ‘gradient’ layer with the black circle layer by pressing Ctrl+E.

Step 6

Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and set the Blur Radius to about 1.8 pixels.

Step 7

Duplicate the circles six more times by pressing Ctrl+J. Hitting Ctrl+R, the Ruler Bar pops up; Guides can be dragged from both the vertical and horizontal sides of the document window.

Step 8

Select the Crop Tool (C ) and drag it right about the guides. The selection snaps automatically in place but only if you’ve enabled ’Snap to Guides’ from View > Snap.

Step 9

At this point, go to Image > Crop to create a tile.

Step 10

Select the background layer and then go to Edit > Define Pattern. Name the pattern in the box that comes up.

Step 11

In a new document, you can either go to Layers > New Adjustment Layers  > Pattern. Or apply your new pattern as a Layer Style to an object. Whatever use you have for your patterns, they can be scaled to your liken.

Applying Adjustment Layers among all other techniques and effects further enhances the look of your patterned textures.

Metal themed textures: Meshes and Grids

Grater

Grater detail

Mesh

Mesh II

Speakers Grid

Speakers II

Carbon

This one isnt metal as such, but what the heck! I had fun making it anyway.

Steel Mesh

Steel Split

Steel

Compared to the first steel texture above, this one’s seemless as it does not have those tiling hat make up the entire image visilible. This was possible using  the Offset Filter after making the pattern. Seemless textures are perfect for 3D for they give smooth appearance textures all round.

Downloads

Metal Textures Jpgs Zip file

There is nothing better, nothing more powerful and nothing more popular than the greatest graphic image editor ever that is Photoshop. Photoshop by itself is a pretty useful tool, but when its extended with stylish brushes, beautiful patterns, seamless textures and powerful actions, it is truly an unstoppable tool.

In today’s news we have collected the best free resources to help enhance your next project.

650+ Free Photoshop Patterns

The use of repeating patterns in Photoshop can help to produce attractive website backgrounds with very little effort, and of course patterns have other uses as well. In this post we’ll feature some of the best free patterns that are available. You’ll find some individual patterns as well as many packs of multiple patterns.
650+ Free Photoshop Patterns

45 Photoshop Actions To Enhance Your Photos And Stand Out

In this article you’re going to find 45 sets of Photoshop actions that can help you enhance the colors and change the overall look and feel of your photo.
45 Photoshop Actions To Enhance Your Photos And Stand Out

The Ultimate Collection of Free Photoshop Patterns

Photoshop patterns offer a quick way to enhance your project with a cohesive look. Here are a collection of absolutely beautiful photoshop patterns. Whether you use patterns to fill the entire background of your site or just a specific area of your design, you will definitely find these useful.
The Ultimate Collection of Free Photoshop Patterns

40 Fresh Free Texture Packs

In this round-up they’ve collected 40 amazing new free texture packs to freshen up your designs.
40 Fresh Free Texture Packs

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboyand speckyboy@twitter).

What a year it has been for Photoshop, with a multitude of new, fresh and original tutorials, a wide array of useful Actions, textures for, well, every possible texture you can think off. Resources are seemingly endless.

What we have done today is put together a collection of the best Photoshop resources from this year (2009), There are tutorials for image manipulations, text effects, icon design, digital imagery, illustration… and much, much more. Accompanied with all of this, there are also huge collections of PS actions and textures.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year searching for the best photoshop tutorials for you. They have come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009, selected from there published tutorials, with over 1 million votes and views from there Photoshop users and readers.

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

The 30 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009 – Computer Arts

Whether you're after advanced advice on font trickery or you hanker for detailed guides on photo manipulation, you're sure to find something here to help you while away those long winter nights and boost your Photoshop know-how in the process.

The 30 best Photoshop tutorials of 2009 – Computer Arts

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

In the resource you will find The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009, a collection of diverse and unique effects and type treatments that will add a little extra to your next design.

The Best 40 Photoshop Text Effects from 2009

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

The author of this article have listed 45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials for those designers out there who wants to try this type of art. Read through the tutorials in this post and gain useful tips to master the technique… Have fun!

45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials

200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions

In this article Tripwire magazine has a very large collection of Photoshop actions (some in large bundles). With the click of a button an action can help you achieve time consuming effects in no time, you just need to have access to the right actions.

200+ Very Useful Free Photoshop Actions

25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers

This time, the Photoshop actions are for Photographers, with an impressive collection of 25 actions, this post is worth bookmarking.

25 New Photoshop Action Sets for Photographers and Designers

26 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

This style of designing is mainly achieved using Adobe Illustrator or CorelDraw to get that vector-like effect, but for those who do not have vector graphics editor, orsimply prefer Photoshop, this is a nice selection for you.

26 Photoshop Illustration Tutorials

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

The holiday spirit is once again here. Santas, Christmas trees and Christmas balls are once again in fashion…and just for that Naldz Graphics have collected 45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season.

45 Useful Illustrator and Photoshop Tutorials for Christmas Season

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

There are a few things that a designer can not have enough of in his or her design arsenal, and one of them is textures. Since there were so many textures released in 2009, it must have been difficult to choose the best. However, this post does a damn good job with this collection, and most will be valuable additions to your texture library.

The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

Photoshop brushes are an integral part of any any designers toolbox. Sadly Photoshop doesn’t come packaged with an abundance of high quality brushes, you do need to search and scour the web for quality brushes. On a positive note, there are no shortage of designers willing to share there brushes, meaning that there are literally thousands upon thousands of brush sets available for download.

In todays news round-up we have collected the freshest and the best Photoshop Brush Collections.

50+ Free Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets to Download

Vintage-inspired designs are becoming popular and many designers are finding different ways of recreating the old into new. In this post they have collected 50+ free vintage Photoshop brush for your vintage-inspired designs.

50+ Free Vintage Photoshop Brush Sets to Download

High Quality Rough and Grungy Photoshop Brushes

This set of rough and grungy Photoshop brushes take on a drybrush effect, with plenty of detailed whispy lines and long strokes. You can download them for free and you can use them in your personal and commercial designs.

High Quality Rough and Grungy Photoshop Brushes

200+ Free Abstract Brushes To Use For Light Effect

The author of this article has collected an impressive 200+ brush sets with abstract patterns and light effects.

200+ Free Abstract Brushes To Use For Light Effect

By Paul Andrew (Speckyboy and speckyboy@twitter).

Adding textures to your designs are fundamental, they bring digital art to life and without them they would be flat and, well, boring. Creating intricate textures can be time consuming and often difficult, it is now time to learn from the experts.

To help, we have compiled a list of the most sought after Photoshop textures tutorials, not only useful as resources, but, also good means to learn new skills.

Realistic Grass Texture

Glass Texture

Leather Texture

Honey Texture

Red Slate Texture

Rust Texture

Brick Texture

Leather Type Texture

Flower Texture

Wood Texture

Realistic Stone Texture

Metal Texture

Leopard Skin

Alabaster Texture

Dry Wall

Wood Texture

Asphalt Texture

Wave Texture

Lava Texture

Plaid Texture

Brushed Aluminum Texture

Grungy Metal Texture

Rust Texture

Rock and Stone Textures

Dirty Screen Texture

Jeans Textures

Stone Texture

Dots Texture

Fence Texture

Technodots Texture

Wood Texture

Liquid Blood Texture

Wrinkled Paper

Gold Texture

Marble Textures

Desert Texture

Water Texture

Dragon, Snake and Reptile Scales

Grungy Paper Texture

Military Style Texture

Watercolor effects are a hot trend right now in web design. It seems like we are seeing at least one or two sites featuring this style show up on the design galleries every week. Adding watercolor elements to a design can definitely give it an artistic appearance, and when done well, can make a website look as if it was scanned from a canvas.

Here are some of the best watercolor brushes and textures that can be found on the web.

Brushes

• Grungy Watercolor
  10 Brushes
  
• Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes
  18 Brushes
  
• Hi-Res Watercolor Photoshop Brushes Set II
  20 Brushes
  
• WaterColor .1. Brushes Pack
  17 Brushes
  
• WaterColor .2. Brushes Pack
  25 Brushes
  
• Watercolour Brushes Set 1
  26 Brushes
  
• Watercolour Brushes Set 2
  25 Brushes
  
• SimpleSmudges .2. Brushes Pack
  32 Brushes
  

Textures

• Textures: watercolors
  8 textures
  
• 
  Free Hi Res Watercolor Textures
  2 textures
  
• 
  Large Painted Textures
  5 textures
  
• 
  Painted Texture
  5 textures
  
• 
  Watercolor Textures
  13 textures
  

You don’t need to have your finger on the pulse of web design trends to know that hand drawn style is hot right now. To achieve this look you have a few options: you can do some sketches and doodles on paper and scan them in, or you can draw them directly in Photoshop. The third option would be to take advantage of the resources found in this article.

• Handmade Doodles
  16 brushes
  
• Star Doodles
  35 brushes
  
• Doodles
  35 brushes
  
• Dotted Doodles
  20 brushes
  
• Frame Doodles
  20 brushes
  
• Arrow Doodles
  32 brushes
  
• Doodles Brushes
  45 brushes
  
• When I Grow Up Brushes
  11 brushes
  
• Enchantment Brushes
  12 brushes
  
• Plant Things
  11 brushes
  
• Handmade Doodles
  17 brushes
  
• Doodles
  68 brushes
  

Textures

To take your hand drawn design to the next level, it is good to place them on nice textures where they would normally be found:

• Cardboard
  24 textures
  
• Packaging
  3 textures
  
• Natural Paper Texture Pack
  9 textures
  
• Chalkboard
  1 texture
  

Fonts

• Grutch Shaded
  
• Jamaistevie
  
• Barnes
  
• Stun Filla Wenka
  
• My Turtle
  
• Sketch Rockwell
  
• Pointy
  
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This is a guest post by Omar the Radwan. Omar is a consultant by day; and an artist, musician, and photographer by night.

Whether creating a grungy website or designing an event flyer, using the right textures and photos are key. Not only should the images be sharp and clear, but finding the right size (usually huge) is important as well. We take a look at some great stock texture and photo websites that provide these much needed tools at a price that fits everyone’s budget (FREE).

• http://www.textureking.com/
  
• http://www.grungetextures.com/gallery/
  
• http://urbandirty.com/gallery/
  
• http://www.freerangestock.com/index.php
  
• http://amazingtextures.com/textures/index.php
  
• http://www.texturewarehouse.com/gallery/index.php
  

More Great Stock Texture and Photo Sites

• http://www.cgtextures.com/
• http://www.imageafter.com/
• http://www.sxc.hu/
• http://browse.deviantart.com/resources/textures/
• http://www.morguefile.com/archive/
• http://texturez.com/
• http://www.mega-tex.nl/highqualitytextures
  
• http://www.leldoradodestextures.com/
• http://textures.z7server.com/
• http://textures.forrest.cz/
• http://www.pixelperfectdigital.com/free_stock_photos/showgallery.php/cat/506
• http://www.kavewall.com/stock/
• http://www.drweb.de/textures/index.html
• http://tellim.com/texture_cd/html/menu1.html
• http://www.bencloward.com/resources_textures.shtml
• http://www.2dvalley.com/gallery/Textures
• http://www.feedfinder.net/webground/main.shtml
• http://free-textures.got3d.com/index.html
• http://www.freetextures.org/
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Vintage design, when done well, can make a user feel like they have been transported back in time. This particular style often uses design elements that look like they were found in the attic of an old house dating back to the 1920′s, 30′s, or 40′s. If you have a project coming up that requires this type of design, here is a big roundup of textures and Photoshop brushes, all found at deviantArt.

Textures

• Vintage Texture Pack
  5 textures
  
• Vintage II Texture Pack
  7 textures
  
• Textures02 – Vintage Floral
  24 textures
  
• Pretty Things
  38 textures
  
• Textures: art + vintage
  15 textures
  
• Vintage Bum
  20 textures
  
• Vintage Pattern Textures LARGE
  32 textures
  
• Vintage Sky Textures
  8 textures
  
• Old Paper Textures II
  10 textures
  

Photoshop Brushes

• Vintage Brushes 1
  13 brushes
  
• Vintage Birds
  20 brushes
  
• Old Paper Brushes 2
  9 brushes
  
• Ornamental vintage brush set 1
  7 brushes
  
• Vintage Pack 001
  6 brushes
  
• Vintage Toile
  21 brushes
  
• Vintage Essence
  12 brushes (these are not free, but since they are so nice and so cheap, I wanted to include them)
  
• Book Ornaments Brushes 3
  8 brushes
  
• Book Ornaments Brushes 2
  6 brushes
  
• Happy Spring Thoughts
  18 brushes
  
• Vintage
  16 brushes
  
• Vintage Polaroid brushes
  14 brushes
  

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Grunge style is rough, rugged, torn, worn, and tattered. To most, these adjectives would describe something less than appealing, but in the hands of a talented web designer, elements possessing these qualities can be used to turn a web site into a work of art. So, if you are just getting started in grunge design or if you are already a pro, you should find the grunge freebies in this article to be very useful.

Textures

• Vintage Grunge – 2
  5 textures
  
• High Res Grungy Paper Textures
  4 textures
  
• Vintage Grunge Textures
  5 textures
  
• 50 Grunge Icon Textures
  50 textures
  
• Hardcore Vintage Grunge
  6 textures
  
• High Res Photoshop Brushes: Grungy Texture
  12 textures
  
• Large Paper Grunge Textures
  5 textures
  
• Color Grunge Textures
  5 textures
  
• Autumn Grunge Textures Set
  5 textures
  

Brushes

• Worn Photoshop Brushes
  9 Photoshop brushes
  
• High-Res Grunge Ink Splatter Brushes
  9 Photoshop brushes
  
• Vector-Grunge Brush Pack
  6 Photoshop brushes
  
• Tizzape Tape Brushes
  20 Photoshop brushes
  
• Ewanism Brushes- Grunge
  65 Photoshop brushes
  
• Despirited Grunge Brushes Set1
  7 Photoshop brushes
  
• Typographic Grunge Brushes
  7 Photoshop brushes
  
• Grungy Stuff
  10+ Photoshop brushes
  

Fonts

• BB Petie Boy Destroyed
  
• The King & Queen font
  
• Bleeding Cowboys
  
• Everyday Ghost
  
• NeoPrint M319
  
• Birth of a Hero
  
• Marcelle
  
• Times New Yorker
  
• Hurricane SupaDupaSerif
  
• Turbo Ripped
  
• Trashed
  
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