Creating 3D hole effect on wooden texture

[tronix]

Hallo,
I have a wooden texture and I would like to create a smooth 3d dug-out holes effect like in the image below:



I am only interested in the normal holes and not the long ones. I would like the same effect that one would get when rendering a muffin baking tray with holes, for instance. How can I get this effect in Photoshop(or am I better off doing it using another program? - if that is the case - which program??). I have Photoshop CS6.

Thanks in advance.

 

[chrisix]

Start with the picture of the wooden board
make the roundish elipse shape with the selection tool, copy
ctlr-shift-n> fill selectionc
ctrl-shift-n> paste
ctlr-alt-g
liquify to make the wood grain curve
re-adjust the position of the layer
ctrl-shift-n>add shadows and highlights with a soft brush

 

[hawkeye]

I'm thinking a bevel/emboss layer.

 

[chrisix]

oow that gives a verry nice effect
but you still need to make the wood grains curved

 

[IamSam]

Start with the picture of the wooden board
make the roundish elipse shape with the selection tool, copy
ctlr-shift-n> fill selectionc
ctrl-shift-n> paste
ctlr-alt-g
liquify to make the wood grain curve
re-adjust the position of the layer
ctrl-shift-n>add shadows and highlights with a soft brush

Please demonstrate with screenshots/photos.

 

[chitkaran]

I have tried Ripple, Spherize - both followed by Bevel n Emboss, not getting the desired result...

 

[colleague]

I tried with an ellips with bevel and emboss
and an extra ellips with inner glow
but you can also use a grey image and play with the blending modes

View attachment wooden whole.psd

 

[IamSam]

That's pretty close colleague! The hard part is getting the wood texture to curve to the bowel shape.

 

[tronix]

Thanks a lot for all the replies. This is a great forum!
Thanks Hawkeye for the emboss/bevel idea. Collleague, your rendition looks really good.
Any ideas how to make the grains of the hollow wooden hemispheres also curve?

I will post my attempt soon.

 

[Hoogle]

cant you just use the liquify tool and maybe in there use the pinch or bloat tool on quite a large brush failing that I am sure the forward warp tool with some patience will do the job if the pinch/bloat tool is not a good result only meant as a quick fix

 

[Bosch232]

Yeah, I was thinking the Warp Tool as well.

 

[tronix]

I have tried out the bevel/emboss tool but somehow I cant get the ellipse to be transparent so that the wooden texture below it can be visible:
View attachment New Picture1.bmp

Any suggestions on how I can make it partially transparent?

 

[colleague]

set the opacity to 50% , play with the blendingmodes