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Simple Wood Texture - Photoshop Tutorial
There are many tutorials that require a wood texture, most of them are text effect tutorials. Rather than having to search for wood textures on the web, it's very simple to create your own wood texture from scratch using Photoshop. In this tutorial, we'll walk through the basic steps to create a simple wood texture that you can use in your Photoshop projects.
Step-by-Step Instructions:
1. Open a new document in Photoshop. Set the dimensions to 200x200 px.
2. Create a new layer, name it "Wood Texture".
3. Use the Paint Bucket tool and fill in the layer with the color that you want for your wood.
4. Goto Filter > Noise > Add Noise.
Set the Amount: 25%
Click the Gausian option
Check the Monochromatic checkbox.
Click OK to accept changes.
5. Goto Filter > Blur > Motion Blur.
Set the Distance to 300 pixels.
CLick OK to accept changes.
6. You should now have what appear to be straight wood grain lines.
7. Goto Filter > Liquify. Use an appropriate sized brush and begin pushing the wood grain lines so as to add some waves and variation. Try to make them appear random, yet flowing at the same time. Click OK when you are done to exit the Liquify screen.
8. Finally, goto Image > Adjustments > Brightness/Contrast. Adjust the brightness and contrast sliders so that the grain of the wood stands out better.
9. You should now have a good looking wood texture to use in your projects.
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