Metal texture effect

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a metal texture effect. You will need to use various filters for this texture effect.

Metal texture effect

Step 1
Open a Photoshop document with 640 x 480 dimensions.
Choose a grey foreground colour then select the paint bucket fill the canvas with your colour. I have used #787878 colour for my metal texture.

Step 2
Add some noise to the canvas by selecting Filter > Noise > Add Noiseand add the following settings.
Amount = 17%
Distrubution = Uniform
Monochromatic = Checked

You should get the following:

Step 3
Select Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and add the following settings.
Angle = 57
Distance = 15 pixels

You should now have a metal texture effect. If you don’t like the brightness of your texture you can adjust it by selecting Image > Adjustment > Hue/Saturation and adjust the lightness slider.