Oh transform! Gotcha, I'd got as far as rect-marquee and ctrlJ but when I saw no blocks I thought that was wrong so I went off looking for some other way of selecting it, thus the crop... Followed all the rest of your instructions, also tried reducing the opacity of that top layer, just to see what happened. I think I finally settled for the soft light option, nice. Did some jiggering with levels and brightness/contrast, result, a lines jpeg and a darker one for bump. Thanks. Tried it out on the corridor, and I like it. Just a little bit of it in places, but it makes a nice change... Now are there any other nice metal tuts around? Not rust though, I'm looking for newer metal than that... don't mind if it's a bit scratched here and there - discreatly though, not big scratches. I've got these lines, brushed metal, (including circled brushed metal) and a rather nice carbon fibre and I combined the brushed metal with itself rotated 90 degrees, for doubledbrushed.... what else can I have? Any ideas?

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