I don't see that, since I followed specific instructions for the "Brushed Metal" and was perfectly able to change that - thus the "Brushed Copper". I find that if I've once got some instructions, first I follow them exactly then I play around with the various bits, like, the ammount of noise (I played with that in Brushed Metal,) the blur, ditto, the colour, ditto, brightness & contrast, ditto (not that the last looked too good with too much brightness,) - oh for Brushed Metal you just: open new doc, fill with grey, Filter/Noise/add noise, then Filter/Blur/Motion blur (about 50 & direction left to right) adjust Brightness contrast as desired, then crop to remove the odd bits on the left and right - fini! Um, why do you have to have a new layer for diagonal lines? Is there no way to do a straight line - then in the SAME LAYER turn for a diagonal, then back for another straight? etc etc?

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