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Turn a Smooth Metal Surface to Anti-Slip

posted by krissycokl

This tutorial deals with making a sheet of flat metal something with a corrugated or “anti-slip” surface using simple photoshop techniques. You can start with any basic metal image. We’ll be using this one:

First things first, we have to make a pattern to cover the smooth piece of metal. Make a new document of the same dimensions as the metal image. Make sure the background is transparent. To do this, first, make a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N) with a transparent background and dimensions of around 200×200. The pattern we’ll be making will be an extruding riveted one, so we will now make an oval shape which will be the base for the pattern. Now, set your foreground color to white and use the ellipse tool to make a generic oval.

Now, we’ll rotate the oval exactly negative forty-five degrees. To do this, do Free Transform (Ctrl + T) and hold shift as you rotate. Check the upper toolbar to see when it hits -45. Reposition it to be only slightly far away from the corner. Now, let’s apply a bevel effect to the layer.

And I used these for an outer glow effect:

Combined, they should look make the oval look something similar to this:

Now, we should trim the image a bit–so that there isn’t quite so much spacing. I used Image –> Canvas Size.. and these settings:

Now, we are going to make the other component to the pattern. Duplicate the oval layer (Right click, duplicate layer). Now, do Free Transform (Ctrl + T) and right click it and Flip Horizontal. Now, we want to move the oval to be as far from the bottom two corners as the other oval is from the top two corners. Look at the upper right of the screen where it says X: and Y:. To space it as far, we remember that the new image size was 150 pixels by 150 pixels. So, we do 150 - (in my case) 42.5, and 150 - (in my case) 42. Replace the former X and Y values with these calculated values. Here is how mine looked:

Now, we do Edit –> Define Pattern. All that’s left now is to return to the brushed metal picture. Make a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N). Using the paintbucket tool, set these settings:

Now, click on the image to fill. Set the layer’s blending mode to multiply. Make another new layer, and fill it with the pattern again. Set this layer’s blending mode to Overlay and its opacity to around 30%. Here’s your final result!