Wood Textures - Part 5

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Create new file. Keep light brown and dark brown colors for foreground and background respectively.

2. we have selected the colors shown in the image below.

3. Filter > Render > Fibers (Varience:27.0 Strength:4.0)

4. Draw ellipse or the circle using Elliptical Marquee Tool.

5. Filter > Distort > Twirl (angle 176)

6. Make one more knot on another location using the same technique.

7. Image > Adjustments > Auto Color