Adobe: How to Make a Steel Sheet

Adobe Photoshop is one of the most widely used graphics and photo editing applications around. It comes loaded with a number of tools and features that can be applied to almost any image-based project or task. One of the things you can do in Photoshop is create shapes with realistic textures. For example, if you are creating a sign or logo design for a welding company, you might want to create an image of a sheet of steel. Creating this effect in Photoshop is a fairly simple process.

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  Open Photoshop. Select "File" from the menu bar and choose "New." In the dialog that appears, enter the width and height in pixels that you want your document to be. If it is going to be printed, change the resolution to 300 dpi. Click "OK."

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  Click the "Create a New Layer" button in the "Layers" palette.

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  Select the rectangular selection tool from the toolbar. Use it to make a selection on the canvas where you would like to have the steel sheet.

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  Select the paint bucket tool from the toolbar. In the tool options, change the fill color to a dark gray. Then click inside the selection to fill it with the color.

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  Select "Filter" from the menu bar and choose "Render." From the options, choose "Lighting Effects." In the dialog, adjust the gloss to 80 and the material to 95. Click "OK."

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  Select "Filter" from the menu bar and choose "Noise." From the options, choose "Add Noise." In the dialog that appears, choose "Uniform" and "Monochromatic" and make the amount 10. Click "OK."

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  Select "Filter" from the menu bar and choose "Blur." From the options, choose "Motion Blur." In the dialog that appears, set the angle to 2 and the distance to 30. Click "OK." Save your work.