Honesty (texture tutorial and recipe)
In this quick and easy tutorial, I’ll illustrate how I transformed this photo of honesty in a bottle into something more painterly and rich. Mouseover the photo to see the before and after effects.
The first texture I tried was Pompeii stucco, an easy-to-use texture that adds depth.
I opened the texture in photoshop and dragged it on top of my photo, don’t worry if your texture is a different size or shape from your image, just resize to fit.
Once your texture is covering your image, have a play with the blending modes and opacities. Here it is at Soft Light 47%
I rarely use just one texture on an image so I tried some more and ended up using a layer of Necropolis at Overlay -40% and a layer of Elysium at Colour burn -14%
Just a quick curves adjustment layer to tweak the tone and contrast a little. Click “Create new fill or adjustment layer” button at the bottom of your layers pallet and selecting curves from the drop down list.
And we’re done!
This entry was posted on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 10:12 am. It is filed under Tutorials and tagged with antique bottle, atmospheric, honesty, interior, Jill Ferry, moody, natural light, Necropolis, New Zealand, painterly, Pompeii Stucco, rich, silver dollars, Tutorial.
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