Brushed Metal Background

[lavish909]

First off I hope this is in the right section. I need to create a Brushed Metal Background for a Box truck Wrap 85"x145" and was wondering what's the best way to go about this. I was taking a smaller 300 dpi image and scaling it up to size at 150 dpi but it looks really bad. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong or what to do right? Again sorry if this is the wrong section.

 

[artbot]

scan a piece of brushed metal. that way you can get a clean couple of gigs.

 

[AUTO-FX]

Seamless tiles?
http://www.allcompu.com/IFPro4/cgi-...er_Art_Seamless_Texture_Tiles_Volume_1/Metals

 

[lavish909]

And just create tiles over the entire area, Whats the normal resolution to do this at?

 

[Fred Weiss]

Here's a link to 76 different brushed metal seamless texture tiles we offer for individual licensing and immediate download.

 

[AUTO-FX]

And just create tiles over the entire area, Whats the normal resolution to do this at?

i think 110-150 ppi at full size looks ok. scale it up and do a test print to see what you like!

 

[Salmoneye]

don't just scale it up, res it up! Some photography books give good advice for ressing up images in PS. We have had pretty good luck with them. I have also used a nice vector drawing of brushed metal before, don't know what it would look like that large.

 

[Brandon.McCarter]

3M just came out with a brushed metal wrapping cast in thew 1080 line. It looks amazing and even has the texture. It comes in 4-5 different colors. PM me and ill let you know who has it in your area.

 

[lavish909]

Thanks for the advice, Hey Salmoneye what do you suggest I res it up to?

 

[Miss Grafx]

FREE TEXTURES!!! Hope this helps you!

Hi-Res 300 DPI Textures

http://www.psdgraphics.com/textures/metal-textures/

http://www.psdgraphics.com/tutorials/metal-texture-photoshop-tutorial/

http://miatari.deviantart.com/art/BRUSHED-METAL-TEXTURE-181712456

 

[Rick]

You can also make it in Photoshop with the noise filter, then motion blur, then in Illustrator, you can put a gradient on top of it, then "opacity" and "multiply" and color it anyway you need...

 

[lavish909]

So I think I have a decent design done, now my question is when laying the the wrap i'll probably have to do it in a couple panels, whats the trick to getting the brushed metal to overlap properly? The brushed metal I am using kinda has a skew to it so that might make it even harder to apply? Any thoughts?

 

[dman0427]

Hi-Res 300 DPI Textures

http://www.psdgraphics.com/textures/metal-textures/

Nice site! It has a lot of ideas on there... thanks for posting

 

[iSign]

So I think I have a decent design done, now my question is when laying the the wrap i'll probably have to do it in a couple panels, whats the trick to getting the brushed metal to overlap properly? The brushed metal I am using kinda has a skew to it so that might make it even harder to apply? Any thoughts?

Two thoughts... First, remember it is just a wrap! Even vehicle manufacturers have to tolerate seams and joints... This is not a hand painted mural& while perfectionism can be an asset in this industry, it is still wise to recognize that it is unattainable!

Second... Maybe print a fine line at your overlap, so even with a half inch or more lap, you can see exactly where you WANT to be... but don't stress if you're a little off either, as no seam is invisible but an average viewers eyes will look right past that

 

[lavish909]

I appreciate your words of wisdom iSign, I think my biggest problem is trying to make it perfect in a imperfect world! lol