# Metal Texture Battle Anybody?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [August 6, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730 "2003-08-06T00:59:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![kh3mical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e5b9ba/32.png) [@kh3mical](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kh3mical)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 12:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/1 "2003-08-06T00:59:48Z")

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well, wat ya gutta do is make a metal texture ONLY with photoshop. This is way easy and is aimed at noobs. it shouldnt take very long. but some1 else can decide how long it goes for.:D:-\ :beam:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/2 "2003-08-06T01:37:14Z")

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a metal texture on what… be more specific man

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2003, 1:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/3 "2003-08-06T01:51:07Z")

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eh, just a plain metal texture. a flat jpg file. nothing fancy its aimed at noobs like me.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/4 "2003-08-11T14:12:10Z")

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oi kh3mical, you sad little rubbish head, i mean comon, this is not the place for this kind of lame idea for a battle, this just helps you, how is it any good for a battle, you should place this in the help area at least,

ps. are you a boy or a girl ?

ppps. make a wik battle like who can make the best looking question mark!

mike

ps. i actually like you

ps. no pun intended

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 3:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/5 "2003-08-12T03:34:09Z")

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☹ i am sad, and im a guy

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2003, 5:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/6 "2003-08-12T17:21:47Z")

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Lets break it up ladies.😛

Khemical, I personally don’t think there’d be much competition for a metallic texture, you can only do so much, creativity and such isn’t used much in this type of work.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2003, 3:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/7 "2003-08-13T03:35:18Z")

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ok then…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/8 "2003-08-22T21:59:21Z")

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Gold is a metal, does it count?

![](http://www.myimgs.com/data/coppertop/Gold.jpg)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/9 "2003-08-22T22:34:07Z")

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thats really cool, how’d you do that?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/10 "2003-08-22T22:39:59Z")

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Thanks, I made a copper one as well.

I’m creating a tutorial. Check my site September 1st and it will be there.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/11 "2003-08-23T09:56:03Z")

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looks great =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/12 "2003-08-23T10:49:44Z")

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wellity, wellity, wellity. look whos doing the sad battle which nobody likes now. ive had some major bagging-outage and now people are doing it. man im going crazy.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2003, 10:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/13 "2003-08-23T10:53:43Z")

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also,

i did like corrugated iron kinda stuff. not brushed metal like the past 2.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/14 "2003-08-24T10:23:50Z")

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=)  
 ![](http://mlkdesign.online.fr/misc/kirupa/metallish.jpg)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/15 "2003-08-24T10:55:43Z")

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mlk, that’s absolutely awesome! Did you do everything with PS? Can you teach me? Can I be your puppy? :love:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/16 "2003-08-24T10:58:25Z")

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lol, is that a photo?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/17 "2003-08-24T16:59:05Z")

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looks like it, but me thinx twas done with dust and scratches, or something like that. But that is one hell of a texture.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/18 "2003-08-24T17:06:19Z")

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doesnt look like a photo to me

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 5:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/19 "2003-08-24T17:09:23Z")

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totally PS (although I do have a plethora of good brushes)

here’s the psd if you want (rightclick-saveas): [http://oliphony.online.fr/metallish.psd](http://oliphony.online.fr/metallish.psd) - it’s 3 meg so take a nice cup of coffee before starting the d/l

there are no ‘tricks’ to do it, I used a gradient, added lots of noise, motion blur (horizontal), added some lighting (filters\>render\>lighting or something like that), used a brush with dodge or screen (can’t remember cause I 'Ctrl-E’ded to the previous layer), then on another layer some clouds, changed the contrast of the clouds, played with the filters…

then I made lines on a separate layer, duplicated it and smudged the 2nd layer, and added some bevel-emboss to the first…

nuthin’ complicated =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/metal-texture-battle-anybody/27730/20 "2003-08-24T23:10:50Z")

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> \*Originally posted by asphaltcowboy \*  
> \*\*doesnt look like a photo to me \*\*  
> Oh, you’re so blasé… :s:

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