Posted in Travel Adventures on 01/14/2010 09:53 am by Donna
All my bags are packed and I am ready to go. Today I leave for 10 days to Germany and Austria! I am beyond thrilled! It has been a dream that’s about to come true!
Planes, trains, and automobiles. I will be keeping a journal of my adventures and will have lots to blog about when I return.
Of course this baby is coming with me! I bought a new 32gb card to go along with the 4gb I already have.
See ya later USA! It’s all good. ~Donna
Posted in Photography on 01/13/2010 08:00 am by Donna
I learned a new trick this past weekend! I have been interested in learning how to add textures to photographs. I have photoshop and lightroom and I know the very basics of each. I spend time searching the internet and reading blogs to learn new skills. There are so many wonderful talented people who are so creative and gracious!
I have been a fan of the Coffee Shop blog and have been following it for months. Rita is a Texas gal who loves photography and shares many wonderful photo editing tips. She has a great site full of information for folks interested in photography. She had a blog post featuring ShadowHouse Creations. Now Jerry Jones is all about creating beautiful textures and art images. You need to stop by his site and take a look. So inspiring and just what I am interested in.
After trial and error I figured out how to add textures to my images!
Before
After!
The change is very subtle but I really love it and I am glad I tried.
How did I do it? Well, I downloaded the Elemental Grunge Texture Pack and created a file for it.
Once in photoshop I went into the file I created for the textures and I chose a texture I wanted to work with.
I opened up the texture in photoshop then went to my photos and selected one I wanted to try a texture with.
I opened that photo into photoshop so I could see both the photo and the texture. I used the rectangle tool and
copied the texture. I then pasted the texture over my photo. At that point I could see the texture over the
the photo. I then had to right click on the photo with the texture and then I had the option to free transform to pull the texture to cover the entire photo.
After the entire photo was covered in the texture I double clicked the photo to set the texture. I went over to layers and and chose overlay and adjusted
the opacity until I was happy with the result. Whew! I did it! So can you!
I am having fun with textures and thanks again to Rita and Jerry for sharing their beautiful designs with us!
It’s all good. ~Donna
