Circuit Board Texture

1. Click File=> New. Set the following

• Height = 165 pixel
• Width = 150 pixel
• 72 ppi
• RGB
• White

2. Click Edit=> Preferences=> Guides, Grid and Slices. Set the following:

• grid color = green
• grid style = lines
• Gridline ever = 15 pixels
• subdivisions = 1

Click OK. Click View=> show=>check grid.

3. Select the paint bucket. Set the foreground color to green, hex #E0FFE0. Fill the background with the green.

4. Insert a layer by clicking layer=>new=>layer.  Call the layer edge.

5. Highlight the edge layer. Select the Rectangular Marquee tool.  Set the options to

• New selection
• 0 feather
• style = fixed size
• width = 130 pixel
• height = 145 pixel.

Click in your doc to set the marquee. Use your marquee tool inside the selection to click and drag selection to center it both horizontally and vertically. Arrow keys will also nudge marquee.

6. Click Select=> Inverse. Double click your hand tool on the tool box to zoom fit your image to your work area.

7. Select your line tool set to

• Fill pixels
• Line
• Weight = 4 pixels
• Foreground color = black

8. Draw lines to follow each grid line, holding your shift key down from left edge to right edge and top edge to bottom edge.

Click Select=> Deselect.

9. Insert a Layer by clicking Layer=> New=>Layer. Call this layer circuit. Highlight the circuit layer.

10. Set the line tool to fill pixels, line, 2pixels. Draw the circuit grid. It need not be accurate but there is a suggestion on the right.

11. Select the paint brush. Set the brush to a hard 9 pixel rough brush. Click single paint drops at the end of each circuit line.

12. Link the circuit layer to the edge layer. Click Layer=> Merge Linked.

13. Set the Merged layer to opacity 6%.

14. Click File=> save for the web. Set the file to gif, between 8 and 32 colors, no dither.