Wood

Wood simulates the features common to sawn lumber, including grain, knots and rings. You can control the thickness and waviness of growth rings, the angle at which the wood is cut and more. Create planked or solid and tileable wood textures.

## Control Descriptions

### Basic Tab

Ring Thickness

Acts as a zoom lens. Low values elevate the view, creating thinner, densely packed rings. High values yield a close view, with thicker, widely spaced rings.

Cut Offset

Controls the angle at which the wood is sawn. At 0, the board is cut along the length of the tree, like a 2x4. At 100, the wood is cut into logs, almost like firewood

Left to right: Increasing Cut Offset.

Pulp Color

Selects the color of the space between growth rings. You can select a color using the eye dropper or choose the foreground or background color. You can also select one of the six most recently used colors.

Bark Color

Selects the color of the growth rings.

Variation Amount

Controls the amount of waviness along growth rings. Higher values result in increasingly curly rings.

Left to right: Increasing Variation Amount.

Variation Roughness

Controls the jaggedness of waves in growth rings. Higher values yield increasingly jagged growth rings.

Left to right: Increasing Variation Roughness. Rings still flow in the same direction; variation makes them more wavy.

Contrast

Controls the brightness of the pulp rings. Higher values create brighter highlights and the appearance of raised growth rings.

Left to right: Increasing Contrast.

Wood Orientation

Rotates the texture. Use the circular slider or enter a value between 0 and 360 degrees.

Seamless Tile

Check this box to create a repeatable pattern with no seams.

Random Seed

Controls the random elements of this filter. Click it until you get a result you like.

### Knots Tab

Number of Knots

Controls the number of knots randomly placed in the wood texture. Choose one to ten knots.

Knot Size

Controls the width of the dark knots. Higher values yield larger knots.

Above: Knotted wood.

### Grain Tab

Grain Size

Controls the size of the lines that simulate grain in the wood pulp. Higher values create larger grain.

Left to right: Increasing Grain Size.

Grain Aspect Ratio

Controls the length to width ratio of the grain. Higher values yield a longer grain, without affecting its thickness.

Grain Density

Controls how closely packed the grain appears. Higher values yield more streaks, increasing the grain density.

Grain Opacity

Controls the contrast of grain streaks against the rest of the wood; higher values yield opaque streak and strengthen the illusion of depth in the wood texture.

### Panels Tab

Divide Into Panels

Selecting this option divides the wood texture into boards.

Divide into Panels: Before and after.

Board Length

Higher values yield longer planks.

Board Width

Higher values yield wider planks.

Darken Seams

Darkens the lines dividing planks. Increasing the value yields noticeable gaps.

Board Color Variation

Randomly contrasts the color of planks. Higher values strengthen the effect.