Tutorial – Gold+Silver Reflective Foil Textures

Learn How-to Created Gold and Silver Reflective Foil Textures using Photoshop.

Foil textures can be very tricky to create. Unlike most materials, they aren’t easily photographed because of unwanted reflections, and worse still they don’t create any reflections at all when scanned with a flatbed scanner. So it would seem that the best option is to artificially create them from scratch with image manipulation, but then how do you make a texture appear reflective in Photoshop?