hm, i cant recreate that

tried filling a square selection with the four colors gradient and then bump mapping, but i dont end up with what you made

Just had a quick look back over the xcf file, used four bar gradient to create a brush, then using brush created pattern, blurred results by 5px then bumped on the white layer.

some time ago when i was working on something that now slumbers in my abandoned projects folder, i made a ton of patterns that were intended to mess the result down a bit - not sure grunge is the word i'm after, but texture doesn't sound right either. i think i mean something in between . in any case, i liked the patterns, i think they can be useful in many ways, so i zipped up a bunch of them for anyone who wants to try them out.

examples of patterns:


some patterns in use:

wow! stunning!


I'm stealing!!

Playtime

nice, thanks Odin

Recently posted this pattern at my deviant (yes, SSP again. lol) and felt compelled to map it to a depthmapped skull that I found online a while back.

I came up with an interesting texture tonight. Started with just a little square and just did a bunch of stuff to it...in an attempt to make something look like metal to do a tutorial for a metal ring. Decided to try to personalize the project. I painted a bit, shadowed a bit, embossed a bit, tiled the whole thing larger, and then the good part... filter>artistic>glass tile...that helped a lot.

Small sample picture has been removed now.

snatched that right away, gramg !
but what is MiMetal ?

Just a cute way to say 'My Metal"....lol...to make people wonder...
Thanks for your post, Esper...glad you like it...about time I start sharing something here, if it turns out.