Preserved Topic: Wood Tutorials

Hi all. I'm new to the forum but have been reading it for a while. Anyway i'm doing a site for a guy that deals in wood panneling. Know of any good tutorials working with wood?

~Sir_KiTree~Scan~

threep offers his advice:
"welcome! try searching through the photoshop archive for 'wood'. that should help!"

<Butthead> Heh eh huh heh ehe... "Tutorial." Eh heh eh huh heh... </Butthead>

Seems to me that if he deals in wood paneling, his customers would like it much better if they actually see what they are paying for.

However, if you want to make wood in Photoshop,

Try : http://www.grafx-design.com/10photo.html

or

http://www.designsbymark.com/pstips/misc_woodtex.shtml
or

http://www.savvy.net/wood.htm



The more I learn about people, the more I like my computer.

I would suggest POV-Ray if you're going to be doing anything complicated.

Here's an example of a wood texture I often use: http://uoeinstein.hypermart.net/torus.gif

I would be happy to post it if you are interested.



[This message has been edited by mbridge (edited 07-03-2001).]

threep also tries his hand at talking like '<butthead>':
"heh heh - search for 'wood', or even, heh, 'wood tutorial'. you may find this thread, where the doc says this, heh:

quote:

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Heh. I remember when people first started asking me how I got my wood textures, what filters did I use? Basically, I had a digital camera, and there was this woodworkers store that had all kind of cool woods you could buy, in small planks, blocks, what have you. Most of the dark woods turned out pretty bad, but the oaks and the pines turned out great! So did the birch, nice effect there. Than I used photoshop to make it all tile, all while tweaking the saturation and levels, brightness and contrast to get a good effect. I find the realest looking things on screen are heavily exagerated in terms of contrast, at least that's my personal style. Still, the best natural effects come from NATURE, it's been doing it longer. Raw material is raw material, what you do with it is what counts.

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heh heh heh... keep looking, and you may see some of the best documentation for wood inlays that i have ever seen... heh heh heh... "

There is a default action that comes with PS that you might consider pulling apart.


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I, Warjournal, Techincal-Slop Author Extraordinaire.

Thans you all for the links and advice. It was very helpful.


-no names please, mine's bad enough.-

~Sir_KiTree~Scan~

Excellent wood MBridge!!

I ran into this one a while back, seems pretty good.. seamless if yur carefull. http://www.myjanee.com/woodtutorial.htm

-cyoung