Wood texture for Illustrator

[bjory]

Anyone knows how I can create wood texture for Adobe Illustrator? No need very realistic, just to show nice wood grains.

[.soulty]

look around in illustrators brush sets. there are some brushes there that have a wood texture to them. you might be able to use that. otherwise get some reference material of wood and just simplify it in illustrator by redrawing shapes.

cheers.
.soulty

[bjory]

Yah saw the brushes in the default brushes in Illustrator. I was wondering is there any filters of something i can use to create a wood texture where I can change the properties or some sort?

Creating it by myself will be too tedious as I only need the wood texture to be a small part of my project.

[.soulty]

no filters that i know of. Cant you just use the brushes and adjust them?. only thing i can think of, sorry.

try searching google.com

[prstudio]

you can in adobe photoshop using the metal tutorial on this site

gray square
add noise
motion blur
then tint it brown

might help you get it quicker...

[.soulty]

also with photoshop ,

you would also use Render/distort/wave to get some knots in the texture as wood has.

[bjory]

But how do I get it over to Illustrator?