My friend Poly told me about how she incorporates textures into photos. She quickly showed me some examples and how she does it. So, I just went outside and took some photos of items that have texture, such as bricks, my screen door, the grill cover...so I can give textures a try. The texture in this photo is of the top of our central air conditioning unit, right outside our home. You probably can see that it has a fan-like pattern to it. So, I started with my background photo of Matt and Lexy and cropped it to 10 x 8, giving it a slight angle (to the background) to give it a little more interest. I then opened my air conditioner picture and cropped it also to 10 x 8 and did a Ctrl A, Ctrl C. I closed that picture. I then did a Ctrl V, which pasted the AC photo on top of the background photo. Then I just played with the opacity of my new AC layer (54%) and fill (84%) until I liked what I saw. I then used the eraser on the AC layer and erased where Matt and Lexy were in the picture, so that no texture was on them. This is what I got. It's a first attempt at trying textures. I hear you can buy some great textures online, but for starters, it's fun to try your own!
6.10.2009
Textures
My friend Poly told me about how she incorporates textures into photos. She quickly showed me some examples and how she does it. So, I just went outside and took some photos of items that have texture, such as bricks, my screen door, the grill cover...so I can give textures a try. The texture in this photo is of the top of our central air conditioning unit, right outside our home. You probably can see that it has a fan-like pattern to it. So, I started with my background photo of Matt and Lexy and cropped it to 10 x 8, giving it a slight angle (to the background) to give it a little more interest. I then opened my air conditioner picture and cropped it also to 10 x 8 and did a Ctrl A, Ctrl C. I closed that picture. I then did a Ctrl V, which pasted the AC photo on top of the background photo. Then I just played with the opacity of my new AC layer (54%) and fill (84%) until I liked what I saw. I then used the eraser on the AC layer and erased where Matt and Lexy were in the picture, so that no texture was on them. This is what I got. It's a first attempt at trying textures. I hear you can buy some great textures online, but for starters, it's fun to try your own!
