Paint a wooden plank Tutorial
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Step 5:
In this step you will have to play with your brush settings, I won't give you my ones, I want you to learn something in the end 
What I did was adding texture to my brush, scattering and some adjustments of the tip shape. Just make sure to get a irregular, rough shape in the end. Create a new layer, set your opacity to about 30 % and overpaint your plank with some brown tones. Also try setting your brush mode to overlay, and shade your plank, simply paint with bright colours at the highlights, and with dark colours in the shadows.
Step 6:
I felt that my plank was a little overworked, seems as if I added too many little strokes. So I made a layer on top of the others and with a normal hard brush on about 40 % opacity made some longer strokes over the plank. I also cleaned up my shape a bit.
Step 7:
You are finished now, you can see an example of what you can do with this technique below. This is my recent painting, a secret place. I hope this tutorial was helpful for you, if you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to drop me a mail at daniel@dp-world.net.
Tutorial published with the permission of Daniel the Author of this photoshop painting tutorial.