Have you ever seen that wonderful wood like texture or background found on many websites and wanted to know how it is done? This tutorial will teach you a basic but effective way to complete this desired outcome, which would work great as a background.
Step 1: Setting up the file.
Open Photoshop and create a new document with the size 500px by 500px. You can use any size you desire but for the sake of this tutorial we will stick to this size.
Create a new layer and using the Rectangle Tool cover the entire document with black (#000000).
Step 2: Creating the texture
Make sure your foreground colour is set to black and your background colour is set to white before completing the next step. You can also reset them to these colours by hitting “D” on your keyboard.
Now have your layer selected and click on “Filter” in the top menu bar. Then from the drop down menu hover over “Render” and then select “Fibers” from the next drop down menu.
After clicking on the Fibers link a new window will pop up allowing you to change the settings. Use the below settings:
After entering the above settings click on Ok to save your changes.
Your image will now look like this:
Step 3: Enhance and colour
Now we want to make everything look a lot better and add some colour.
Start by opening the blending options for your layer, this can be done like so:
Now with the blending window open, choose “Gradient Overlay” from the left hand side menu and enter these settings:
Click on Ok to save your changes.
Your image should now look like this:
Now all that is left to do is the colouring.
Make a new layer above your current layer. Change your foreground colour to brown (#42301b) and using the Rectangle Tool; fill the entire layer with the colour.
All we need to do now is set the layer style to “Color”
And you are all finished.
The final result should look like this:
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