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Make Realistic Wood in Photoshop (or GIMP)

Make Realistic Wood in Photoshop (or GIMP)
In this instructable you will learn how to make realistic wood in Photoshop or GIMP. The steps might not be exactly the same for GIMP as they are for Photoshop. Photoshop (for Mac OS X) is used in this instructable.
 
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Step 1Create a new image

Create a new image
I made a 640 x 480 transparent image but it really doesn't matter what you do.
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7 comments
Jun 16, 2008. 3:35 PMtheburn7 says:
I Made One!
Jun 16, 2008. 3:44 PMtheburn7 says:
after using picnik.com ....
Jun 16, 2008. 1:31 PMtheburn7 says:
interesting, i see how this works in photoshop with liquify, but how do you get the same results with The GIMP
Aug 16, 2007. 5:14 PMburzvingion says:
This is an interesting approach, its actually fairly similar to the method I usually use, which is to fill a solid color in one layer, add a new layer on top of it, do Filter->Render->Fibers on that layer, then set the blending mode to either color burn or linear burn (soft light and luminosity can sometimes look good too) and the layer opacity to about 40%. To finish I link and merge the layers and liquify the resulting layer. Liquify is amazing to play around with, but for this I like to use the turbulence tool and set the turbulent jitter to around 5 or 6, then just "follow the grain." Then some bulging and blurring for kicks, and it looks pretty good.
Aug 16, 2007. 5:17 PMburzvingion says:
and by "blurring", i mean "smudging."
Aug 6, 2007. 11:49 PMHamO says:
Excellent, nicely done!

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