How to create a quick wood texture in Photoshop. I once told Trav I would show him how I make a wood texture in Photoshop I never got around to it. Oh well Better late than never heh Everything you need for this quick texture is in Photoshop 5.02 (dont ask me about 5.5. LOL) Go to open in your file menu and from there go to your Photoshop folder to textures. The one that you want for this tutoria is "Hard Linear Grain" Open it. Go to Image and then mode and covert it from grayscale to RGB color. (any grayscale image that you have may have painted grain in will work of course) Now then, at this point you need to decide what wood tone you are trying for and you can use this next trick with multiple combinations of colors. But we will keep it simple. We want a "cedarlike" finish. If you want you can even simulate knotholes by using a distortion filter and the old smudge tool on selected sections. 1st make sure you have a 000 black in your foreground color and red in your background color.. or vice versa. Go to your Edit menu and then click on the fill tool.. Change the opacity of the fill tool to 50% and fill with black.. then repeat the same process with red at 50% opacity. Here you have a faded looking color and not quite what you need so go to the Image/Adjust menu, and bring up your brightness/contrast tool. Adjust your brightness slide to -50 and your contrast tool to 40. Volia! wood texture..:) From here you can adjust to any number of wood tones.. from bright down to a rich dark brown with a setting of -90 on the bright and 40 on contrast.. some ppl may even want to play with the saturation .. Also you can play with native photoshop texture filters to create more grains.. cont.

Now for my purposes, I will be throwing in a few wood knots and applying the texture to a dueling pistol model I umapped.. to do that you can isolate the pieces of the template you need with the pentool and convert your path to selection. Taking the wood texture I will define a pattern in photoshop by making a selection from the texture and hitting define pattern under the Edit menu. From there I will go back to the path I made, convert it to select and then use the fill tool again with pattern selected and at 100% opacity. I will try and post the results of the pistol later. Hope this helps Tartan :) "They say that Time is the fire in which we burn." "Time may be the fire in which You burn but I have insurance;)"

Wow Thanks Tartan I'm just beginning to scratch the surface of realizing the power of Photoshop.thanks for the tut Hawkfyr