Realistic Wood Photoshop Tutorial

[James Random]

OK. So we all know the actions in Photoshop can fall flat on their faces. The rosewood 2 action isn't very convincing, for example, too bitty and grainy. But it IS possible to enhance the rosewood to make it look quite realistic.

I show you.


Allllllrighty then - step one, open up photoshop , create a document let us say 500 X 500 in RGB and run the rosewood 2 action.



Gaussian blur it by 2.0. Once you've done this, flip the canvas by 90 degrees in any direction, press x to reset your colours and duplicate layer and then run the "fibers" filter, mess about with the settings - but the secret to any artifact of nature is "imperfection", not perfection.

Now the next step depends on how dark you like your wood. As a default, i like to switch the layer mode to "multiply" and lower the opacity to 63%

you end up with this:



As you can see, a vast improvement.

With a reflective surface (i used a cruise lounge, being an ideal setting for all things rosewood) and some lighting effects, you can really bring out the suggestion of wood here.



Hope it comes in useful one day.

[Toon]

Very Helpful

[James Random]

Originally Posted by Toon

Very Helpful

lol - i thought so

[Toon]

and 2nd, 3rd, 4th in Google

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[James Random]

oo000oo do i get a prize?

[Toon]

If you can tell me how?

[James Random]

[shrugs] I'm stumped. Ebay? lol

[Toon]

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[Mchilly]

I this is a very good tutorial...nice

[crazyleaf]

Good outcome.