Creating a wooden texture

**Finlander** · March 26, 2011, 08:13 AM

tutorial

Hi all and welcome! My purpose is to show a simple and quick way to create a nice wooden texture.

working 1. Create a new document size 500x500 px

2. Set foreground colour to white and background colour to black.

3. Next go to Filter->Render->Clouds. You can always press Control+F to remake the clouds if you are not satisfied.

4. Go to Filter->Blur->Motion blur. Set angle to 90 and distance to 999px.

5. Lower the contrast using the Levels command (Image->Adjustment->Levels) by moving the central button a little to left.

6. Click Filter->Brush strokes->Accented edges. Try using differend settings (like Edge Width: 2, Edge Brightness: 42, Smoothness: 4) and click new layer in the bottom right.

7. Now click "Artistic" filter's "Dry Brush". Try settings like Brush Size 2, Detail 9 and Texture 2.

8. Create a one more new layer and put there Film Grain -effect. Set Grain to 1 and Highlight area and Instensity to zero. Click OK.

9. We need some colour to our picture. Find Image->Adjustments->Hue/Saturation.
Click Colorize and try finding a nice brown colour with settings like Hue+40, Saturation 30, Lightness -26. Press OK.

10. Next we are going to make a wooden pattern for our texture. Click Filter->Liguify.
Take Turblulence -tool from the left toolbox. Try differend sizes and click the image and move your mouse up and down.

11. Take a "Twirl Tool". Select a brush size and click somewhere where you want to make a branch. Hold down the left mouse button untill you have a nice pattern there. Repeat this to differend places.
Once you have done click OK.

12. Finaly add a lighting effect if you want. (Filter->Render->Lighting Efects)

And we are done!
I hope this little tutorial was at least little useful to you. Have fun with your texture!

Greetings,
Finlander

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(was it correct? It's a traditon but who used it the first time?