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Tutorial - Working with wood textures - 1
 
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Making "woody" textures is a fairly straightforward process, and after the intitial setup, it's very easy to tweak the bristles to produce similar textures with varying characteristics.

1. We'll start with two bristles that will produce the base color of the wood. Use the Rectangle tool to draw a shape that is 47w x 130h.

2. Apply the following settings to this bristle:

  • Color tab
    • - Base Color: H: 24, S: 58, B: 48
    • - Base checkbox enabled
    • - Line checkbox enabled
    • - Fill checkbox enabled
    • - Gradient checkbox disabled
    • - Antialiased Edges checkbox disabled
  • Alpha tab
    • - Enabled
    • - Minimum: 8
    • - Maximum: 8
    • - Density: 98
    • - Threshold: 1
    • - Feather Edges: 11
  • Placement tab: Relative to anchor
  • Frequency tab: disabled
  • Grid tab: disabled
  • HSB tab
    • - Enabled
    • - Hue Variance: 7
    • - Saturation Variance: 21
    • - Brightness Variance: 0
  • Jitter: disabled
  • Stroke: disabled
  • Random: disabled
  • Rotation: disabled
  • Scale: disabled
  • Shadow: disabled
  • Image: disabled

Painting a few strokes should yield something similar to this:

3. A this point, duplicate this bristle by right-clicking in the Bristles list, and selecting the Duplicate Bristle option. Using the Selection tool, move this bristle so that the two bristles are next to each other. This new bristle only needs to have one attribute modified: Change the Base color to H: 25, S: 43, B: 51.

4. We'll create a third bristle, by duplicating either one, and changing Base color to: H: 25, S: 25, B: 13. Move this up next to the other two.

5. Select all three bristles, and set anchor point to the center of the middle bristle. Painting a single vertical stroke should yield something like this:

This is where the "one-brush many bristles" approach starts to show its strength. If you paint horizontal strokes back and forth until the color is no longer transparent, you'll get some really subtle color combinations: