Wood Textures - Part 4
Software : Photoshop 6.0
Level : Intermediate

Concept: Another type of wood texture using Adobe Photoshop filters. Here we have tried to create the result that reveals on the wood surface after carpenter smoothens it with his tool. You need to carefully choose the colors for this effect and you can experiment with different filters to come closer to the realistic output. This type of effects can be used for making buttons for special purpose as well as for backgrounds.

1. Take light and dark brown color for foreground & background respectively

Render > Clouds

2. Filter > Add Noise
(Uniform, Monochromatic, 7)

3. Filter > Pixelate > Mosaic
(cell size 4)

4. Distort > Shear

Follow the pattern given below

5. You get the wood texture