Carved Wood Effect & Wooden Table Top – Photoshop Tutorial

First you will need to find a wood image try www.shutterstock.com to buy and downloads great photos

Open the file in Photoshop and save the wooded texture image as layered photoshop file

We need to make a pattern from this image to use later to create the effect:

• Image > Duplicate >
• Now adjust the levels of the new duplicated image
• Image > Adjustment > Levels >
• In the 2nd box set the Input Levels to 1.1
• Ok

(your pattern overlay will be slightly brighter than the background image)

Defining a pattern:

• CTRL+A
• Edit > Define Pattern >
• Ok

You can now close this image as you won’t need it again!

Now find a cool font, logo or image that you want to chisel into the timber. I’m using type and a vector logo created in illustrator.  Find the font you want at www.dafont.com

Create a new document, using the original wood as your background.  Type the text or bring in your image as another layer.  These can be any colour, as we will add a pattern overlay later.

Now you can apply the following layer style settings:

Now we can apply a pattern overlay using the pattern we created earlier!

with that done it should look something like this…

Nearly there!

Now… we need to create a duplicate layer of the background.

• Move this layer to become the top layer
• Image > Adjustments > Desaturate

• Go to the Layers Window
• Select the pull down menu and change to Overlay
• Change the opacity to 60%

That is it – Simple!

You can create lots of different effects and images using this tutorial.  I have created a world map carved into a wooden table and added pins (see below)

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