Showing posts with label how to make textures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to make textures. Show all posts

Monday, October 15, 2012

Making my own Texture for photo overlay...

 I collected a photo of the clouds from earlier in the summer...layered that over...
 a photo of leaves that I'd shot just last week...  I monkeyed around with opacity of the layers... and added some 'noise' in the form of grain [Elements filters] and came up with this.
Next I took a prospective shot that I'd like to try a bit of my own layering on.
Original:
Surely these do NOT look like a combination should do anything.  But I decided to try anyway.

What I ended up with was something a bit warmer and nicer than the original shot and if you look closely you can see some texture.  I did use a layer mask to bring out the bright red of the leaves on the lower right and the true color of the berries.  I think it is nice and subtle.

Final: