Textures
Posted in Photography on 01/13/2010 08:00 am by DonnaI 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
01/13/2010 at 6:39 pm
Hi Wendy! Thanks for the nice comment on my post. I don’t know if you have heard of Picnik. It’s a free photo editing site and so easy and fun to use. I use that as well to edit my photos. You will love it! I use picasa to store my photos. It’s also free. It allows me to make a web album where I size my photos to 640 for blog sharing. I use wordpress so I am not sure how posting photos on blogger works.
I hope this helps!
01/13/2010 at 4:35 pm
Great post! You are convincing me that I need to get Photoshop. Currently my
pictures are straight out of the camera. My hubby and I were comparing my
pictures to those on other blogs such as yours and we were trying to figure
out why everyone else’s looks so much better. Even the size of the picture
is bigger on other blogs.
Oh dear – I’ve got picture envy.
Thanks to great blogs like yours, I’m aspiring to be better.