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I really liked how the mask on the art group looked, so I am going to take that channel and apply it to the wood texture just to make it even more convincing. Go back to the channel that we used as a mask for the art group. Hit Cmd/Ctrl+A to select all, Cmd/Ctrl+C to copy, select the alo/vignette layer in the wood group and Cmd/Ctrl+V to paste. This gives us the black-and-white pixel information from the channel and just pastes it into a layer. Set the blending mode the Hard Light and bring the Fill down to 15%.
In part I of my series on "creating awesome textures using filters in Photoshop" I showed you how to create a realistic water texture using only 2 filters. In part II of this series I will show you how to create a realistic wood texture. Already, our wood texture is almost there. We can add some color to it by unlocking the layer (if it's still Background), and then going to Image > Adjustments > Hue/Saturation. Make sure the Colorize option is checked. In Adobe Photoshop, select an area that you'd like to give a wood texture to, and fill it with a brown colour. I created my shape using the Freeform Pen Tool, but that's optional. 4. Create a new layer, press D then X, and fill the layer (with white). Now add a noise filter with settings [Amount: 140%, Distribution: Uniform, and 'Monochromatic' checked. Then set the layers blending mode to 'Overlay' and set the opacity to 10%. If you want a more or less grainy look to the wood make opacity higher or lower. Next create a NEW LAYER above and with a Light Brown foreground colour and a Black background colour goto FILTER>RENDER CLOUDS. Next change the layer settings to OVERLAY, that gives us a nice rich colour and some tonal variation as well, neat eh?? ;-) When you click this a drop down box will appear. Near the bottom of this box is Textures, select this and it should load up a textures box under default actions. Click the small arrow next to the word Textures to open up the options and find Rosewood 2, select this and near the bottom, click the play button, as is shown here. Create a new layer in Photoshop and fill it with a light brownish, slightly orange color. Try different colours depending on the type of wood grain you want to create. 7. Go to (filter - liquify) and play around with the tools you can use there to add some swirls and other things! I've included a screenshot from the things I've done to my wooden texture using the liquify tool and the second screenshot is my final result! So there you go, you've just created a realistic wood texture that can be used for almost anything! You can even use it to design a tree if you want to� 1. Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new image, I used the dimensions 300 x 300, but any size will do for this effect. Set your foreground color to #999999 and your background color to #FFFFFF. Once you have done this, goto Filter > Render > Clouds and keep doing it until you get an acceptable set of clouds, as shown below. 1. Open Adobe Photoshop and create a new image, I used the dimensions 300 x 300, but any size will do for this effect. Set your foreground color to #999999 and your background color to #FFFFFF. Once you have done this, go to Filter > Render > Clouds and keep doing it until you get an acceptable set of clouds, as shown below. Here's a quick Photoshop tutorial for creating a reasonably realistic looking wood grain effect. It's a quick technique that looks pretty good. Once you learn it, it can be accomplished in under a minute! 1. Create new file with 72 PPI and white background. 2. Select any shade of Brown as a foreground color. 3. Press Alt + Delete to fill foreground color. You are now done with the wooden effect, and you are ready to start using this masterpiece in your designs. See Figure 7 as an illustration to the result I have created. Goto Filter --> Render --> Fibers Variance : 16.0 Strength : 4 (Press (Randomize) until you get a nice balanced texture) Ever used the wood texture in Adobe Photoshop? Here's how to use the gradient tool to make a wood texture that looks a whole lot better than Photoshop's sawmill wood texture. (Wood texture requires Adobe Photoshop 6.0 or higher for Noise Gradient feature.)
This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a wood texture effect. |
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