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How to make a wood texture in Gimp

1. Create a image
To create a new image go to File --> New. Choose the image size you want. I work with 1024 * 2048 in this Tutorial.

2. use Plasmafilter
Click on Filters --> Render --> Clouds --> Plasma. Activate Randomise and set the turbulence value up to 7.

   

3. Desaturate
To desaturate the image go to Colours --> Desaturate

4. Motion Blur
Then click on Filters --> Blur --> Motion Blur. Aktivate Linear, und set the length value to 100 and the angle to 270.

   

5. Make it darker
Then go to Colours --> Curves. Set a point and bring it down to the right corner.

   

6. HSV-Noise
Then click on Filters --> Noise --> HSV-Noise. Put everything up to the maximum.

   

7. Again Motion Blur
Click again on Filters --> Blur --> Motion Blur. Activate linear and set length to 40 and angle to 270.

   

8. Duplicate layer and change the name
Put the mouse over the Background layer and click right mouse button --> duplicate layer. Trough doubleclick onto the new layer you can change the name to variation.

   

9. Edge Detect
click on the new layer called variation and go to Filters --> Edge Detect--> Edges. Let everything be how it was and click ok.

   

10. Change layermode from variation layer
As the next step we change the Layer mode from normal to overlay.

   

11. Change Levels
To change the coloration levels click on Colours --> Levels. Put the middle one down to the left side. I choose 2.30 as value.

   

12. New layer for groundcolour
To make a new layer click on Layer --> new layer. You can also press the first button in row to make new layers (the white one). We choose the name MainColour and look that the size is the same than the image is.

   

13. Choose Main Colour
To choose a colour click on the Foreground colour in the toolbox. Then it opens a menu where you can choose your colour. You can choose the colour you want. I have used the HTML-Notation: 7b4a26.

   

14. Filltool setup
To change settings of the fill tool doubleclick on it. Then it opens a menu where you can change the options like me: Opacity 100%, choose FG-colour.

   

15. Colourize the layer
To colourize the layer fill it with the fill tool.

   

16. Change layer mode
Now you can change the layer mode also to overlay and you have a coloured picture.

   

17. Merge visible layers
To merge the layers make rightclick on the main colour layer and choose "merge visible layers".

   

18. make it seamless
At the end we make the picture seamless by clicking on Filters --> Map --> Make seamless.