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| Metal Meshes Tutorial Author - Man1c M0g (http://forums.biorust.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=1) |
Made famous by the first Biorust design, metal mesh textures are remarkably simple to create and can give your interfaces and/or artwork a much needed dose of industrial-style funk.
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Step 1: Create a new document of a suitable size
with a default white-filled background. Reset your foreground and background colours to black/white by
pressing D on your keyboard. Then apply Filter > Texture > Stained
Glass with the following settings: |
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Step 2: Grab the magic wand tool, and ensure
that it is set to a Tolerance of 50, with the Anti-aliased &
Contiguous boxes checked. Now, click on the black lattice so
that the whole of the lattice is selected, but none of the white background.
Edit > Cut your selection out, create a new transparent layer, and
Edit > Paste it in. You should now delete the background
layer because you don't need it anymore (or, of course, just fill it in with
a solid colour and/or texture of your choice). |
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Step 3: If a simple wire lattice is your aim, you can just stop now and have a perfectly respectable texture. If you want something a little bit funkier, though, duplicate the wire layer several times, and move each layer to slightly different positions. If you do it right, you should end up with an image like the one on the left. Now, all you have to do to make a decent texture is crop out the centre, and then make it seamless or run the pattern maker. Enjoy! |
Variations
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Mithril: With a little reworking and a slight change to contrast and brightness, finely-meshed silvery chain mail is no problem at all. You can, if needed, even play around with the settings in step 1 until you get a lattice that suits your tastes more precisely. |
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Scourer: Made famous by Biorust v1, this texture is simply a variation on the above technique, randomized slightly with careful use of the clone stamp tool. |