Redwood Texture
Written on June 19, 2007 by admin
Start off by creating a new canvas to work on (CTRL+N) 5 x 5 inches.
Fill with brown. set your forecolor to black (press ‘D’) now
filter>render>clouds.
Here we add some lighting effects to get some color. use the following
settings.
Now we need to apply the ‘pinch’ effect about 7 times. Filter>distort>pinch
With an amount of 100. Use (ctrl+F) after you do it once to repeat. After you
do that we apply a twirl effect. Filter>distort>twirl with an angle of 105. Now
we pinch it again about 3 to 4 times. This is to get some detail in the wood
grain. (It should now look like figure 3A) now we apply polar coordinates.
Filter>distort>polar coordinates (polar to rectangular). Now goto
filter>sharpen>unsharp mask to bring out your grain lines. (it should now
look like figure 3B)
Now we need to goto image>adjust>color balance and adjust the colors so
that we have the look of a piece of redwood. Use the settings in figure 4.
(your image should now look like figure 4B)
Now we need to add some knots in the wood to make it look more realistic.
To do this select the elliptical marquee tool and make a selection where you
want to make a knot in the wood. Feather your selection select>feather or
(ctrl+alt+d) with an amount around 10. Now goto filter>distort>wave use
the settinngs in figure 5A. now we are almost done. You can quit now if you
want but we are going to add some more redness to our wood in the next
steps. (your image should now look like figure 5B. I did 3 knots in mine)
Here there are serveral ways to add a red tone to your image so play around.
But in this tutorial we are going to use another layer filled with brown (see
figure 6A) and set to ‘color burn’ in the layers popdown menu along with a
transparency of about 67%. (see figure 6b). that’s it! You are now finished
With your redwood texture. Figure 6C is my finished image.
Figure 7 is my finished image with alittle tweaking and some other effects.
redwood !!! really helpful, thanks for the entry.