Create Honeycomb texture

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a honeycomb texture. The honeycomb texture looks like a bee’s structure for holding wax. This tutorial requires using various filters and the gradient tool.

Honeycomb texture effect

Step 1

Open a new Photoshop document with the size 640 x 480 dimensions.
Set the foreground colour to #000000 and the background colour to #ecea26 as shown below:




Step 2

Select the gradient tool with the Radial gradient and the foreground to background gradient and drag a pattern on the canvas like below:




Step 3

Select Filter > Texture > Stained Glass and add the following settings and click ok:

• Cell Size = 100
• Border Thickness = 4
• Light Intensity = 3

Step 4

Select Filter > Artistic > Poster Edge and add the following setting then click ok.

• Edge Thickness = 1
• Edge Intensity = 1
• Poterization = 5

You should now have a honeycomb texture.