help with burnt wood?

I don't know if this belongs in the advanced techniques forum or not, I guess that kind of depends on the answers

I just want to make a semi jagged edge of wood that looks like it was burnt. like as if a portion of a table had been burnt off. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Id say study some stock images of a similar style you want to emulate.

http://www.acclaimimages.com/search_terms/burnt_wood.html
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?DREAMID=162d8793db93eb39b3b679a65a27d9fe&f=search&txt=burnt+wood&w=1


what are you starting with? just a piece of wood?

yeah, i'm starting with a piece of wood and I want one corner/section to look burnt away, but not burning, or if so just slightly.

I would say some creative brushwork on color burn mode. If you show me the image and describe what you want, ill play with it a bit.

that's basically what I've been trying to do, anyway, here's the image:

http://www.planetmado.com/images/P1153191.JPG


and in the top left where I have it marked by a white line I want burned off:

http://www.planetmado.com/images/P1153191-line.jpg