After learning how to create wood and rust in Photoshop, a tutorial about creating a stone-like texture seems to be a pretty good idea, so here we are… I know, I know, you can simply search on Google and you’ll find enough good stone textures, but why not do it yourselves?

1. As usual, first we need to create a new document. If you want to use it as a texture for future projects, make it square, but you can also go straight with a large image, so you can send it right to your desktop as wallpaper, the moment you’re done.

2. Use Filter>Render>Difference Clouds a few times.

3. Check the result to avoid obtaining “flat” stone. Anyway, you can turn back to this step and use Difference Clouds a few more times, if the final result doesn’t look good.

4. Press Ctrl+Shift+L to automatically adjust levels.

5. Now, use Filter>Stylize>Emboss, with the settings below.

6. Depending on how many times you applied Difference Clouds, you may need to play a little with the settings above until you achieve the best results. In the end, I used the Smart Sharpen filter to enhance my stone texture a little, and here’s the result…