How to Create 2 Realistic Wood Textures

NEKALION
by NEKALION · 12 posts
6 years ago in Photoshop
Posted 6 years ago · Author
How to Create Realistic Wood Textures

Tutorial Details


-Program : Photoshop CS3+
-Estimated Completion Time : 30 minutes (unless you get into playing with the noise alot lol)
-Difficulty : Beginner


I. Wood 1

Step 1


Create a new 1500×1500 px document in Photoshop and fill it with the color #c58352. For IMVU you can use 256x256, and save yourself a little work later.

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Step 2

Hit Ctrl+Shift+N to make a new layer. Set the foreground and background to #bb7f4d and #472f0f and then go to Filter > Render > Clouds :

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Step 3

Convert this layer to a Smart Object and go to Filter > Render > Fiber and pick the following settings:

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Step 4

Create a Levels adjustment layer above the current layer and change the contrast to the nearly maximum.

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Step 5

Make a new layer above the Levels adjustment layer. Choose the layer with the fiber effect and activate the Magic Wand Tool (W) . Click on the canvas to select the red details.

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Press Ctrl+I to invert the selection and hit Ctrl+C to copy it. Choose the new layer and press Ctrl+V to paste the selected details into it. Hide or delete the Levels adjustment layer as we don’t need it anymore.

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I turned off the fiber layer to make you see the result more clearly.

Step 6

Double click this layer, choose Bevels and Emboss . Set the Highlight color to #1c180e and the Shadow color to #64522c.

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Turn on the fiber layer and we get the result:

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Step 7

Create a new layer and use the Clone Tool (S) to remove some similar details over the texture, make it appear more natural.

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Step 8

Add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to desaturate the wood texture a bit:

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Step 9

Use a Curves adjustment layer to change the contrast and color of the texture.

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Select all the visible layers and press Ctrl+G to make a group for them. Name it “wood 1”. Hide this group.

II. Wood 2
Step 1


Create a new layer and fill it with the color #c19356 . Convert this layer to a Smart Object .

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Step 2

Duplicate this layer and go to Filter > Pixelate > Mezzotint and choose Long Strokes .

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Step 3

Go to Filter > Blur > Motion Blur and set the following values:

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Step 4

Duplicate this layer and rasterize it. After that go to Edit > Transform > Rotate 90 Clockwise .

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Step 5

Convert this layer to a Smart Object again. Apply a Motion Blur :

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Step 6

Make a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to desaturate the result.

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Step 7

Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E to merge all the visible layers into a new one. Hide all layers except the original fill layer and the merged one. Set this layer to Overlay mode 100% .

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Step 8

The middle of the texture looks blurred and less detailed than the others. To fix it, duplicate the layer and add a mask to this layer. Use a soft black brush to erase the bottom and the top to make them less visible and match with the middle’s visibility.

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Step 9

Duplicate this layer twice and move it down to the middle to increase the details for this section. Use a layer mask to blend them with the existing canvas and hide all the hard edges.

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Step 10

Make a group for all the layers which have Overlay mode. Set this group’s mode to Overlay 100% . Use a Curves adjustment layer to brighten the details of the texture.

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Step 11

Go back to the “wood 1 ” group. Duplicate the layer from step 3 of section 1 and move it on top of the layers of the wood 2 group. Go to Select > Color Range and choose Fuzziness = 170:

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Step 12

Press Ctrl+J to paste the selected area into a new layer and hide the original layer. Change this layer mode to Overlay 50%.

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And We’re Done!

As with everything you do in photoshop, tinker with all the little settings, this is very basic, and you can come up with many different wood styles. :panda6:

Side note: wood is very popular in IMVU! :panda45:
Posted 6 years ago
Nice tut i think am goin to attempt making furniture for my caddy so this tut is goin to come in handy ty @Nekalion
Posted 6 years ago · Author
I wish you luck Scorpi0n! I have to get used to calling you that xD
Posted 6 years ago
No you don't Its still Christian xD
Posted 6 years ago
I enjoyed the tutorial as I suck at trying to make my own textures sometimes but I do use Gimp.. Some say it is harder then using other programs but I guess it is what each person prefers. What I would love to learn more on is how to make a glossy texture such as shiny floors or cabinets etc as when I try no matter what I do or the texture I use it always looks like a flat texture if you could do a tutorial on that as well that would be helpful as well
Posted 6 years ago · Author
I do have another tut that can help with shine. I will put it up soon. :panda3:
Posted 6 years ago
@NekaLion
please hurry your tut are brain food :kat_emoji16:
Posted 6 years ago · Author
Lol I willll geeezzz. I think the next one will be liked since alot of people like shines now. :panda6:
Posted 6 years ago
Bring it on!

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