 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 tutorial. In this one I'm going to show you how to create a hammered metal background or for some people this looks like a very hard Plastic, but I like to look at it as a hammered metal background I'm going to show you how to do it using just Photoshop without any fancy plugins or any pattern libraries or anything like that I've also got another example up here This is a little bit of a darker one with a bit more brown in it I'm going to show you how to do this step by step this these textures are very very popular today and The ability to create your own textures including synthetic textures is a great skill to have let's get going You want to go to file click on new and we're going to create a new document It's going to be 1920 by 1080 and we're going to make sure if you come over here Make sure the background content is not set on white, but set to transparent. We want to make a transparent background Okay, good. Here we go. Here is our document now The next step is we want to actually create a new layer. So we're going to create a second layer on top So I'm going to click I just clicked on this plus Icon here that says create a new layer and for this layer. We're now going to fill it with a color So I'm going to go to edit up at the top and then I'm going to go to fill When I do that, I've got some options I want to fill it with the foreground color which for me is black But if you want a different color, you can select whatever color you want But I'm going with the foreground color of black. I'm going to hit okay and Presto we have filled it with black now I'm going to be applying some filters to this and in order to apply a filter to these layers You have to convert them into smart objects So I'm going to make sure that I'm clicked on my second layer here I'm going to hold my little hand or my little cursor outside of the Thumbnail and outside of the text. I'm going to right click It's going to give me the option to convert to smart object You'll know it's a smart object because you'll see that little icon in the bottom right of the Thumbnail okay, so we've converted this into a smart object It is ready to start accepting filters head up to the top here go to filter and we're gonna now We're gonna go and we're gonna add in a couple of interesting ones The one that I want to add in first is called clouds. So you go to filter render clouds Now this looks a little funny right now, but don't panic. We're gonna make some adjustments So we've got some cool little cloud effect popped onto it Let's now go up to filter. Let's go to render and now we're gonna go to Difference clouds. So we've now applied both a clouds layer or a clouds filter part of me and a difference clouds filter So we've got this really interesting looking Do daddy here, but obviously we need to make some big changes to it So the next step is you want to go up to filter again and this time instead of going down to clouds or whatnot We're gonna go to the filter gallery. So filter Filter gallery when we do that we have some options, but under distort We have a glass option now. We're not looking for a glass look But it gets us very close to where we want to be so I'm gonna left click on glass And then you're gonna see here that on the right side. I've got some options I'm gonna go with glass But I do want you to know that there's a few other ones that you could take a look at if you've got some time like stained glass And all this other crazy stuff, but again the one we're going for is glass Now the distortion is usually set quite low and this sort of looks like you're looking through a shower door You actually want to jam your distortion up to about 18 to 20 I'm gonna go with 19 because I like that look and at the same time I'm gonna jack the smoothness down to about two again if you go really really high you get that weird sort of Look of Yeah, this looks like glass very much like glass But when you drop the smoothness down it starts to looks like hammered sheet metal Which is the look that we're going for leave the texture on frosted although canvas also works quite well That does have a cool look But we're gonna go with frosted scaling at a hundred percent and click okay when we do that We now have a hammered sheet metal type look, but we want to make it a little bit grainier Maybe we want to add in some some rustish type looks so the way to do that is you want to go to your FX So you want to add a layer style So now we're gonna left click on effects out at the bottom right here And then we're gonna go ahead and add in a pattern overlay and that's gonna be very subtle Now when we click on that I clicked on the wrong one. Let's go try again Curtis FX Pattern overlay. All right, there we go now the interesting thing is you can actually go ahead and use Things like trees and grass water These are all standard built-in Standard built-in pattern overlays. I'm gonna go ahead and use this cool Grass-looking one and if you see what I've done there, I've added that in I'm gonna click out I've set the blend mode to soft light. I've set the opacity way down to about 20 percent Let's go with 15 percent The pattern is the grass and I've got this scale instead of being way up high I've got it down to about 20 percent 19 20 percent and when I left click on okay here We have a hammered sheet metal Hard plastic synthetic texture that we created out of nothing and it looks great This looks great for a lot of different designs guys. That's all there is to it Thanks for watching this tutorial ton more stuff coming up. Stay tuned