: Does anybody know a tutorial for designing the Mountain Lion background pattern? Does anybody know a tutorial for designing the OS X Mountain Lion background pattern? I am referring to this commonly

@Hamaas979

It'll take some tweaking to get the result you want, but you can achieve something similar using the Crosshatch filter:

Step 1: Start a new document with a layer filled the color of your choice



Step 2: Create a new layer, fill it with black, add noise with Filter -> Noise -> Add Noise...



Step 3: Add a Cross Hatch filter to the noise: Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Crosshatch...



Step 4: Set the blending mode of that layer to Screen and reduce the opacity to about 40%



Step 5: Rotate the crosshatch layer by 45° and then crop



Result:



Some fine tuning: I added a Gaussian Blur to make the crosshatches a little less harsh.

If you're alright with it not tiling nicely then you can add a gradient to the base color layer.

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