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basic wood tutorial

heres a simple way to make a wood texture in photoshop

open a new image 1024*1024 ,pick 2 brown colors then go to filter/render/clouds

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next filter/artistic/sponge. use the settings below or play about till your happy with what you get.

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next duplicate your base layer then filter/distort/shear

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play about with the line till you get the effect you like

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then drop the opacity of the top layer a bit so you can see some of your base layer

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now flatten your image then duplicate it.
reduce the opacity of the top layer a bit,then ramp up the contrast of the base layer tilll you get something you like .

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last step filter/sharpen both layers then flatten your image.

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now you can play about with dodge & burn to add a few highlights to your wood

tada wood

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