Create a Metallic Rocky Texture in Photoshop
This is just a quick tutorial to show you how to create a metallic, rocky texture in Photoshop. It can be adjusted to create a crumpled foil texture or anything similar – I’ve used smart filters in the tutorial below so the degree of rockiness can be adjusted to suit your design.
Here we go…
- Open a new document. Mine is 1000px by 1000px at 72 ppi resolution.
- Right click on the background layer in the layer panel and convert it to a smart object. This will allow you to adjust all the filters we apply later to suit your taste.
- Set your foreground and background colours to the default black and white (press D to set this).
- Run the cloud filter (Filter > Render > Clouds). Press ctrl + F for PC or cmd + F for Mac to rerun the filter if you don’t like the result you initially got.
- Now go to Filter > Sketch > Bas Relief. I cranked the detail up to 15, set the smoothness to 2 and set the light to come in from the top left. If your document is a different size then adjust the smoothness until you get nice sharp edges.
- This is the result.
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Hi Karen, thanks for sharing this PS favourite. Im embarrased to say that I never use Smart Objects.. Can you let me know some of the benefits of utilising this function? Many thanks. Conzz
I’ve become a big fan of smart objects lately. I think they’re analogous to using an adjustment layer instead of applying adjustments directly to the layer itself as one would do in old versions of Photoshop. So adding a black and white adjustment layer from the layers panel (instead of the Image > Adjustments menu) will give you the freedom to change the adjustment as you see fit at a later stage, so do smart filters allow you to go back an adjust your filter results to suit the final outcome. They can be particularly useful if the image requires a lot of filters – I’m thinking of a particular retouching technique that requires the High Pass filter to be used with Apply Image. It’s a whole process that is quite time consuming, and if your results aren’t good then you have to go through the whole process again. However, if you use smart filters you can adjust the results on the fly. In other words, if used in a smart way, they can definitely be time savers. Maybe that why they’re call smart filters.
Awesome, thanks so much for the answer – makes perfect sense. Gonna have to give it a try