My Sweetest Things

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