Anyone know how to achieve this texture ...

I'm curious how one made this texture, a very realistic cement/worn cement type look to it.

I've gone through a number of texture tutorials played with a number of different methods and none seem to acheive that same feel. Anyone have any ideas?

http://www.ownith.net/

I'm refering to the header and footer of the site.

easy way: take a photo

too many people seem to feel they have to do something solely in photoshop when in reality most good textures are at least partially photo-based. why work your butt off to recreate something that won't look as real or natural as the original you can just snap a pic of?

chris

Fig's dead-on with this one.

It IS called PHOTOshop for a reason.

and then add some sanscrit or whatever font and pillow-emboss or shrink wrap it...

Having recently bought a digital camera one of the first things i did was to shoot close-ups of concrete, bricks, tree bark rocks etc. Than made textures out of 'em!