: Make Image have Brushed metal look Picture 1 picture 2 Can someone tell me how the developer made picture 1 into picture 2 in Photoshop or illustrator?

@Hamaas979

You can use grunge maps as overlays for your base image in Photoshop. grunge maps are just images which are usually black and white that are used for adding small dirt-like details to images. you can find pictures of scratches and concrete to use as gunge maps from a site like cgtextures since the images on this site are free for any use.

Here's the process:


I downloaded these textures from cgtextures







I opened your original picture in Photoshop and added the downloaded images as layers and desaturated them by going to image->adjustments->desaturate which makes them black and white.





Change the blending mode of all the grunge map layers from normal to multiply.





You should get an image that's quite dark so you must use the levels adjustment or the brightness and contrast adjustment to lighten the grunge maps.


Go to image->adjustments->levels and adjust for each grunge map.



5.(Optional) Use the gradient tool to make a black and white circle layer on top of everything and set the layer blending mode to multiply then adjust the brightness and contrast.




This is the final result using the low resolution base image provided in the question.




As others said, there's more than one way to achieve this effect so I don't think this is a suitable question as some methods will not always work.

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