Want to make scratchy textures like these for your icons?

1. First make a new image, 300 x 300 pixels. Press D to revert your colors back to black and white.
2. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds.
3. Now do Filter > Render > Difference Clouds.
4. Go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Stylize > Glowing Edges and use these settings:

5. Now you should have something like this:

6. Duplicate the layer and go to Filter > Noise > Add Noise. Use these settings:

7. Go to your layer palette and add a layer mask (it is the button with a white circle inside a rectangle at the bottom).
8. Go to Filter > Render > Clouds. Part of the white dots should fade now.
9. Create a new layer. Using a white 1px brush, make lines around the canvas like this:

10. Lower the opacity of this lyer to about 20%.
11. Go to Layer > Merge Visible.
12. Now crop a square from the image and resize it to 100 x 100.

13. Sharpen this twice and then duplicate the layer.
14. On the new layer, change the blending mode to overlay.
15. Again, create a layer mask and go to Filter > Render > Clouds.
16. Merge all visible layers and you're done!
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