tantarus, yeah, everything is step by step. At least it is if you can find step by step tutorials. But why can't I use any step by step tutorials in Photoshop for making metal textures? Why should I try a tuorial on... how to make a cartoon pussycat? It's like having to do algebra at school, when you'll NEVER use it in the future - crackers! And when you don't know a program it's very difficult to distinguish between the algebra tuts and stuff that'll help you get nearer to what you want. Not knowing the prog, you don't KNOW what you NEED to know! Unless of course, YOU know what I need to know? You could then tell me which are the non-algebra tuts! (brightly attentive expression) gg Don't mind me, I'm having a headache day. (sigh) It's getting closer to flying time, and someone's messed up our accommodation in Seeb so we aren't going for a week after all, just the one night... Oman is about the most INEFFICIENT place I know of. Oh, look, enough of me moaning, I've done "Brushed metal" nice tut, extremely simple to do, nice result. I've done the same Brushed metal but in a copper colour, easy! I've also done a "Metal Panels" tut, wich wasn't quite so easy, cos the writer did diagonal lines but didn't explain how. She did explain how to do horizontal lines acurately by holding the... shift key down as you drag the mouse, I think it was shift... And I discovered that if you hold the shift key down (if it was shift) and pull the mouse up or down from the last point, then you get a nice VERTICAL straight line. But no diagonals... couldn't figure those out. Anyway, the metal panels in question are a sort of blued-metal effect, and turned out quite nice, (but I'd have liked the diagonals), so now I have 3 different metals.

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