PDN Fanatics

In order to complete this tutorial, you will need the following plugins:

Jitter
Polar to Rect (part of Illnab1024's plugin pack)
Color Tint (part of Ed Harvey Effects)

Start out with a canvas (the default size is fine), and apply a radial gradient from corner to corner:



Next, duplicate this layer, and use the jitter plugin on the top layer (I used an amount of 20):


Merge the top layer down, and use the Polar to Rect plugin at its default settings:


The ring pattern is very symmetrical, so (this is an optional step) you can grab pieces of the image and stretch or compress them:



Eventually, you'll be done resizing things:


Crop the image to just the "wood" part.
Press [shift] and magic-wand in the transparent area to select all of the transparent pixels, then press [ctrl]+[i] to invert the selection.
Press [ctrl]+[shift]+[x] to crop the image to just the selection:


I think it looks better stretched taller, so I doubled the height of the image by using Image->Resize from the Image menu:


Now, we'll apply a color tint and get a basic oak board:


Playing around with hue and saturation, I got a respectable pine:


...and cedar:


A little more finesse with curves or other color or hue effects can get you a wide variety of interesting results.

Have fun!

This is a great Tutorial, Simple to follow and adaptable.

Some Steampunk textures I made with the help of this tutorial.



I didn't have the jitter plugin and I was too lazy to download it , so I used add noise and cross blur.

After reading Ash's post on the main forums (... and feeling guilty) I thought I'd start off by thanking this tutorial for all the wood textures in my gallery. It really helped me understand PDN and then Ash's Easy 3D Chrome

Wow, I'd forgotten about those textures! I can't believe it's been almost two years, my word how time flies!

No kidding! This old tut has aged pretty well, I think...

Better than my textures!

And I like it too!
Got a dark Walnut using only color flip rotate
Color Flip Rotate



EDIT: added walnut flooring

Martel, be careful of the last post date. Only post this late if you're posting a result and some good input.

Yes, this post is almost a year old. Please be aware of that fact and keep that in mind when posting.

warfighter and Briamoth, it's okay. We don't have a rule on necroposting, and Martel was simply saying she liked this tutorial and used it make her walnut floor.

I know it's confusing to see people responding to old post, but the way we see it, Martel is simply responding to the tutorial's author request to "have fun."

I know we don't have a rule, I was just saying to keep in mind that it's not the newest post in the world. Haha.

Briamoth,

Thanks for the heads up.

I am still new around here and have not figured out the way around.

Don't worry. I haven't been here long; but i can say: If you make a mistake, you get a friendly advice. That is all. No
Good thing to keep this tread open. It is an interesting tut.

This is always the starting point for any wood textures I make. If you think outside the box you get some great results.

Add another layer after you've made your wood, use clouds @ a scale of approx' 800 and a roughness of 18 (ish) then run the Height Field to Normal plug-in. Make that B & W then set to Overlay or Multiply it adds some knots to the wood.

It's great keeping the old tuts here ... I really miss some of the older tuts that have gotten purged on the main board

Is this a sneaky Welsh-speak to ask for a Sitcky?