Old Painted Wood

[Jodi Frye]

OK, you asked for that old painted wood...sorry if this seems long but I was playing...

I used New Document, 700 X 700 px, 72 res, transparent, RGB.

Hit Keyboard D to get Black over White in the color chips at the bottom of the tools palette.

>Filter>Render>clouds
>Filter>texture>Craquelure, settings from top to bottom>4, 2, 0.(you should get spotty bumps)
>Filter>Blur>motion blur>Angle 0, distace 49
>Repeat Craquelure, same settings
>Repeat motion blur, same settings
>Craquelure, settings top to bottom 2, 0, 0
>Repeat ( Ctrl + F )
>Duplicate layer
>On Duplicate>Filter>Sketch>Note paper>Grainyness 10, relief 11...Move ' Image balance slider to desired roughness effect. Don't worry
about the white/grey color at the moment. You should have areas that are just lines while other areas will have chuncks of darker grey areas
with lines. At this point you are getting your basic wood look so try hard to get exactly what you want.

Set Blend mode to ' difference', merge visible.

Next add color to wood>Layer>new fill layer>solid color>'multiply' blend mode. Choose a color in the brown range. I chose # 997F67.

Merge visible

Select magic wand and set magic wand Tolerance to 10, check ' Contiguous'. Click on the lightest brown in your image...it should pick up
quite a bit....but not inside the wood gaps....don't worry right now if it picks up more than you wish as we will fix that in a second...as long as
the selections stay outside the deeper wood gaps you are doing good.

Next Select the hue/saturation adjustment layer shortcut on layers palette and move the hue slider to desired color. Saturation to +12 if desired.

OK, now you can
remove some of the color if you wish. If you think about old wood it usually has portions of missing paint...so you need to put black paint on
that hue/saturation adjustment layer white mask to remove the color. You can use a paint brush or use the lasso tool (feather 1 or 2 px) and
make a selection on the mask and then fill it with black to remove some paint. We still have more to do but your basic wood 'look' is what you are needing to
capture here...take time to play a bit with the color before moving to next step if you wish.

Merge visible.

Next>Filter>texture>texturizer>click the little arrow for ' Load texture' (next to the preset textures) navigate to Elements preset texture file;
Local Disc C ; Program Files>Adobe>Elements(your version)>presets>textures, Choose ' Lines '. Now this is up to you on how you want
your wood to look.... I used Scaling 180 and relief 4 and Light from bottom left. Play a bit here.

Lastly> Filter>Sharpen>Sharpen Edges...repeat if desired.

So that's pretty much it but PLEASE feel free to tweak to your own tastes.

[virgo1]

Thank you for writing this Jodi... I printed it.
Eva

[Jodi Frye]

Well Eva, don't forget to show me your old painted wood when you are done !! It's nice to have a slab of old wood laying around in case ya want to make frames or something...

[NMarti]

Thanks Jodi
I'll print it out and give it a shot. I love a good challenge!

[Wendy]

Hi Jodi ...

Thanks for all the information

Wendy

[kayser]

I tried it out. Mine still needs some work, but I used it to frame a farm sketch:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1UdGI6p58ThHARHbKWeVYXbpExHhl1


I'll have to play around some more, but I like the effect! Thanks for sharing.

Oh, maybe this is better:

http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?pi...G4Bhl1RaApGtF2

[NMarti]

Kay,
I think that is a very nice job. I haven't tried it yet but haven't had much time this evening.

[NMarti]

Okay - everyone's gone to bed but me and here's my try.



I need to practice but I did add a step. After I had the wood made I duplicated the layer and applied Jodi's tint to it. Then took a large 'sloppy' brush and just randomly erased some of the tint layer. This is probably different than how Jodi did it but it was my best guess at it.

Thanks again Jodi.

[karen donnybrook]

Not everyone has gone to bed, Nancy, it is only just after 1pm I like the way you have adapted Jodi's wooden frame to become your own and it really sets off the Dahlia (I think it is).

[NMarti]

Thanks Karen - I keep forgetting you are up at this hour. This was a fun tut to do and I can think of a lot of uses for it. Now if I can just find the the time to do them. Yes - it is a dahlia from last summer.