This effect was generated in Filter Forge, a Photoshop plugin that allows you to create your own filters.
This filter utilizes all lighting schemes to create a wide variety of textured metal casts such as aluminum, cast iron, chrome, copper, iron, lead, nickel, pewter, platinum, silver, stainless steel, steel, tin, titanium, wrought iron, and zinc. Click ans scroll filter "Comments" in library to see examples. Enjoy :)
ROUGH ADJUST: All presets are at maximum size for the life preserver image, so use "size, pixels" and/or the lighting "height" control to roughly adjust the desired amount of effect for your image.
REFLECTION: Click and laterally move lighting sphere to adjust the amount and position of reflections.
METAL TYPES: Use the "saturation" control of each lighting environment in combination with the lighting sphere to create different metal types.
Aluminum, Cast Iron, Chrome, Copper, Iron, Lead, Metal, Nickel, Pewter, Platinum, Silver, Stainless Steel, Steel, Tin, Titanium, Wrought Iron, Zinc
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