I did a nice easy "Brushed Metal" tutorial a while back. Fill with grey, add noise, motion blur, adjust brightness/contrast, crop, done. See image above^^^ But now in actually using the image texture I find I need to know how to get that same brushed metal texture to look brushed in circles - as if a mechanical thing has inscribed lines on a flat circle of metal with... say a brillo pad - by holding the pad in the centre of the spinning circle and slowly drawing the pad outwards to the edge thus creating circular brushed marks. How can I do this? Also is it possible to bend the brushed metal texture to get the lines to go in a curved sweep rather than either straight or circular?

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