Colin Smith: Creating Realistic Wood Textures
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This is where most other tutorials finish. You could stop here or go for the extra touch of realism

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 6Set the feather to 10 in the top tool bar in Photoshop 6 (in older versions you will have to apply selection > feather after the selection is made), and make a selection with the rectangular marquee tool.

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Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 7Apply the wave filter again, make the adjustments as shown here press OK or enter/return.

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Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 8See the nice random texture? Lets do it again. Make a selection as before, but this time on the bottom of the wood image.

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Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 9Now go to the filters menu, you will see the last applied filter is still there, click on it or just press Ctrl + F or Command + F to reapply the wave filter.

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Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 10There doesn't that look so much more realistic?

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I hope you had fun with this and I'm sure you'll find it useful.

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