Wooden Effect

Wooden Finish

Creating A Wooden Finish Skill Level: Basic Programs Used: Photoshop 5+
In this week's tutorial I am going to show you exactly how to create a Wooden effect that I think looks really good as a heading for a site.
1. Open Photoshop
2. Choose a "wooden" colour (basically any range of brown or red) and fill the background with this colour
3. Go to the Filter menu and click on NOISE > ADD NOISE. The amount of noise should be set to around 80 and make sure that Distribution is set to "Uniform" and that "Monochromatic" is ticked.
4. Go to the Filter Menu and click on BLUR > MOTION BLUR. The Angle is best set to 0 and the distance to 10 pixels, but you may need to play around with these (I recommend it).
5. Cut out an irregular slice with the Lasso Tool and copy it into another canvas
6. Keep chiselling out slivers of the edges with the Lasso tool until it looks gnarled and chipped.
7. We have finished it off with an Outer Bevel on the wood area, and orange colored text also with an Outer Bevel to make it look inlayed.
Enjoy!