A simple wooden pattern I made for myself. Contains both the raw texture and an example you can use if you'd like.
I recommend playing with it, rasterize and erase lightly some areas, add your touch to it. When using the raw texture, I prefer locking the alpha and filling with a reddish dark brown color and then setting it to multiply.
The tiles don't allign perfectly and it may look repetitive, so be creative about it and add your touch. Erase some areas, add some strokes and smudges.
For the colored image you may use it if you think it fits your work, although I'd recommend doing one from scratch with the wooden texture file.
If you'd like a step-by-step explanation for the colors of the wooden board, here it goes:
- Choose a mid saturation brown and fill the area.
- Create a new layer and set it to "Multiply". Select a dark red color and airbrush it softly around the edges/corners of the board. Lower the opacity if you need, make it look natural.
- Create a new layer and gently airbrush some lighter colors like orange and yellow in a specific area (be subtle about it, no extreme color changes!).
- Lastly, create another layer and paint some more lighter highlights in a straight line across the board. Lower the opacity, erase with a soft eraser around the edges of the highlights. Then erase some parts of it with a hard eraser to make the shape more organic.
I hope you enjoy it :)

Raw Texture + Rendered Wood