first one we did was a wooden effect then we did a stone effect in a little more moves. then a quick and easy metal texture, then water.
Wood
with the wood texture we grab two colours a yellow/orange colour then a darker brown/red then you click Filter - render - fibres play with the sliders and just play around to make your own wood texture. after you've got it you can image variation it. this worked very well because using the same image i could create many different styles of wood. Also Liquifying the image gave us the abilbity to put knots in the wood and curves.
Stone
stone was simple i grab two grey colours then do filter render clouds. then you go into to chanels and make a new chanel which will show up as black. we the filter clouds on the chanel. after that you go back to to RGB not alpha we then do lighting effects and pull the directional light. DO NOT USE OMNI OR SPOTLIGHT. play around with the directional light by clicking and draging one end of the line.
Metal
this was so simple. Filter Noise, Add noise. crank that up to maximum. then click it so its monochromic this will give you a very black and white screen like a TV on the wrong chanel. then we do filter Blur Motion blur and slide the slider along the middle of it will start to look like sheet metal.
Water
Greeny blue and a Blue. then you filter render cloud it to give us this greeny blue pattern. make a new layer. and cloud that layer then you Filter Sketch Crome. slide the chrome sliders to max. then right click the layer 1 and blending options and i used Drop shadow. because with my colours it gave me the best water effect.
