Smooth ceilings might look elegant, but they can lead to more noise and echoes throughout your home. Muffle the sound with one of these textures.

Use Adobe Photoshop's built-in filters to achieve interesting crackled surface textures. Photoshop's Craquelure filter simulates the ... color and adding some noise to it with the Add Noise filter.

Choose Filter > Noise > Median, ... Last but not least, choose Filter > Texture > Texturizer. In the Filter Gallery dialog that opens, choose Canvas from the Texture menu.

They're essentially filter-swept noise, so for this walkthrough, we'll need some stereo white noise and a filter. Synths or samples will do, so ... As a final touch, try out flangers, phasers and ...