There are lots of great background techniques around, many involving a huge number of layers and a variety of blending modes. Here’s a quick way to simulate one of those “looks”...

All you need to know about making realistic metal adding cracks and rust.

Step 1 Create an image and fill the layer with white. Then go to filter>texture>texturizer and pick brick as the texture. Put the scaling at about 160 and relief at 10. Direction should be bottom.
Step 2 Now create a new layer and reset the colors by pressing D. Go to filter>render>clouds...

Learn how to make a tileable background from any image. Perfect for web page backgrounds and the like.

Learn to create custom brushes in Adobe Photoshop using this tutorial.

Here's a quick and easy way to create circular patterns. There are endless possibilaties on what could turn out, so give it a shot.

In this tutorial, we'll be creating a texture that looks like a mud wall.

Ok it is expected that you have at least prior knowledge of where the brush tool is and how to select different brushes. You also need to have at least one brush pack installed. If you don't have this knowledge head over to my Installing Brushes tutorial.

Create this double colored metal texture

Create a new layer on your open document by clicking on the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers palette as shown. Now you have a new blank layer you can work on. Grab your paint bucket tool (this is one of the methods) and click to fill that entire layer with your foreground color...