CREATING WOOD PLANKS IN ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CS6 /CC

Start off by creating a new document ,1280 by 720 pixels. See Image below

Set the foreground color to #9e6945 and background color to #5e3f2b. see Images below.

Pick the gradient tool,choose foreground to background and set the  type to radial.Draw out a vertical gradient from top to bottom at the center of the document.See Image Below.

Pick the rectangle tool and draw a rectangle from the left edge of the document the height of the document and fill it with black.See image Below.

Choose View menu and turn on Snap.Press and Hold Alt key on your keyboard and create duplicates to fill the document.Each Plank should snap well the the next .See image Below.

Select One of the layers,and double click to launch layer styles dialog box.On the blending options,reduce the Fill opacity to 0% so that we can see through it.See the image Below.

To give our Wood plank depth,Check Bevel and Emboss,let the :

style  :Inner.
Technique :Smooth
Depth:200
size :8
Turn off Global light
set the Angle to:0 degrees
Altitude :50
Highlight color :white
Blend mode:overlay
opacity:25%
shadow mode:Overlay
Opacity:50%...... See Image below

Check Drop Shadow,and Set the following properties.

Blend mode:Soft Light
Opacity:60%
Turn off Global Light
Angle:0 Degrees
Distance:3
Size:5.....See Image Below.

click OK.

Right Click on the stylized Layer and choose Copy Layer Style.Select all the other Layers  and Right Click On one of them ,choose Paste Layer Style.All Planks should have the same Style effect.See Image Below.

Merge all existing layer and add anew layer,fill it with white.See Image Below

Choose Filter>>Noise>>Add Noise.set the amount to 40% ,Guassian and monochromatic for distribution .See Image Below

Add another filter.Filter>>Blur>>Motion>>.angle 90 degrees,Distance 999.see image Below

Ctrl +F to repeat the filter 3 times.to fill in the motion Blur at the center.

Choose Filter>>Sketch>>Chrome.put 5 for detail and 10 for smoothness.You can try different values to your liking.See Image Below.

Your resulting image should look like the following image.

Change the blend mode to color Burn.Try out different blend modes to see the result.I liked the color burn better.See image Below.

Resulting image.