Numbers

I’ve been think about this topic for a while and finally decided to make a collage of photos.  These are photos taken of house, license plate and mailbox numbers.  I layered them in different positions and different blending modes.  Then I place a texture of mine underneath the collage and added a frame from OnOne [...]

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Ripgut Brome

Maybe I should step back a little and do what I love best.  That is taking a plain photo and bringing a little more life to it through processing.  This is a simple shot of a grass that has been processed in Photoshop Elements.  I used one of my homemade textures and some layers of [...]

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Metal 2

An antique milk can in my back yard.  Adjusted levels, dodged and burned and added a concrete texture frame that I made with two layers.  Changed to sepia tone. Camera settings: F/9, 1/160 sec., ISO 200, focal length 50 mm.

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Winter Landscape

Took this a few weeks ago.  These two live oak trees are in the Sierra foothills.  I adjusted levels and ran the photo through Topaz Simplify Buz Sim.  I had been working on a custom texture and used it as an Overlay on this photo.   Using a photo I had of concrete, I added warm/cool [...]

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Dead Flowerheads

Kind of an odd subject but I felt they were a great textural piece.  This isn’t meant to be a botanical print but just a texture and mood exercise.  We’ll see how that flies!   These are dead flowerheads on a weed in California cattle grazing land.  Because this area is quite close to the [...]

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Handmade Texture

I love textures.  This was made using my Christmas present Wacom tablet.  I started with a medium brown base layer.  After that, I applied rough brush strokes in a shade lighter and a shade darker on a separate layer.  Floral brushes in black were applied next and this 3rd layer was set on overlay.  The [...]

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Texture

We see texture in almost everything we photograph.  These textures can sometimes enhance other photos to present mood or atmosphere.  This texture is bark from the rootstock portion of a pistachio tree in a commercial orchard.  It is applied over a calendula photo.  Workflow consisted of three layers.  One calendula background original.  On top of [...]

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