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I was working on some textures this morning, its such a great way to relax, and decided to see how well it would work on one of my still life photos.
I had taken a number of pictures of some little vases I made a couple years ago and I’ve been using them to figure out the best way to combine still life images with textures.
Its difficult with flowers, so many tiny details and I’m rather impatient when it comes to removing background from my photos. So I’ve been trying to use layers with different Photoshop layers and filter options (overlay, linear light, etc.) to see how much of the background I can remove without deteriorating the flowers. So it’s lots of layers and lots of erasing, but I learn a lot each time.
Above is the result of one of my recent experiment with a new texture. I’m planing on releasing this image as a note card so keep an eye on the Prints for Sale page! The texture is available for non-commercial/share alike usage over on Flickr and I encourage you to have fun experimenting! And if you have any tips on how to make may images better please let me know!
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Grunge Background Texture!
© 2010 Susan Weller
This texture was created using some of my photos and brushes and some brushes from Flickr’s Skeletal Mess! Non-commercial use only and if you use it please leave a link in my Flickr Photostream! Don’t forget if you include this image in your work you should share your image in kind with others!
This work by Susan Weller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.cathairstudios.com/use-of-textures/.