006 Creating a hammered metal background

Hey gang! This is Deke McClelland, here to welcome you to Deke's Techniques.…Now, you may recall last week I showed you how to render type in gold.…In the background, I featured a hammered metal surface texture.…It's entirely synthetic.…It's something you can create in Photoshop in about five minutes, frankly, and I…am going to show you how to do it inside of this movie. Here it is.…Now, the approach is this.…You start off with a dummy Smart Object.…It doesn't matter what's in it. Then you apply the Clouds filter and then…Difference Clouds and then Glass, and then you top it off with a Rusted Metal…pattern overlay effect.…

Now the great thing about this approach, notice these highlights and shadows.…Photoshop creates those automatically.…If you want to update that effect and rearrange the highlights and shadows,…then all you have to do is go to the Layers panel and double-click on Clouds or Difference Clouds.…That's it! Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…In this movie, I am going to show you how to create a hammered metal effect.…