Creating textures in Photoshop is quite easy. Here's the step-by-step process from Photoshop guru, Colin Smith.

I started with a new document at 300 X 200 pixels, RGB, and 72 DPI. The size doesn't matter really.

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 1Once your document has been created, choose filter > add noise. Use the settings here.

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Figure 1

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 2Let's begin to form the base for our wood grain texture. Choose filter > blur > motion blur.

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Figure 2

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 3OK, now we need to make it a bit wavy like real wood. Choose filters > distort > wave. It's important to lower the scale so that the waves aren't too overdone.

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Figure 3

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 4Now to bring out the grain, choose filter > sharpen > unsharp mask. Crank that puppy all the way up — set the radius at 2.9.

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Figure 4

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Step 5Ctrl + U or Command + U prompts Hue/Saturation. Once there, choose colorize and set the hue at 22 and saturation at 53. To get a more authentic wood color, pull the lightness a bit to the dark side, -19, and press OK.

Colin Smith Creating a Wood Texture Figure 5

Not bad huh?

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