We’re delighted to show you Russell Brown’s new free Pro Texture Panel! Exclusively available to Adobe Cloud paid members only. As you can see from the screenshots texture thumbs its darker, grungier and moodier, even our green Flypaper sales button now has grunge! This time we wanted to offer a totally different palette because […]
Feb 24, 2013 | Categories: Blog | Tags: Adobe paper panel, figure, France, Paul Grand, Russell Brown Video, snow, winter | 2 Comments »
A dull afternoon on the beach found me on my knees trying to get a low level shot. Overcast days are perfect to try moody, grainy textures.The idea behind this picture was ‘a Message in a bottle’, but from the bottles perspective!The Lime Plaster somehow helps give that ‘old distorted glass effect’ . Tex Pack […]
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, bleak, cold, concept, figure, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grainy, grunge, illustrative, landscape, Languedoc, lime plaster, man, Mediterranean, Message in a bottle, ming, old distorted glass effect, Paul Grand, pebbles, photoshop, surreal, Tex Box 2, vacation, view from a bottle, Voyageur map | 3 Comments »
Sometimes the most interesting shots happen as accidents. I was playing with moving my camera during a longish exposure at the end of a beach walk and this was one of the resulting photos.My processing was simple, I used a blue toned (with a hue saturation adjustment) and slightly blurred Caramel Soft @ Overlay 100% […]
Nov 16, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: blue, blurred, Caramel soft, figure, Jill Ferry, landscape, late, lone, moody, New Zealand, night time, reflections, single, surfer, vacation, wet sand | 5 Comments »
Another human for our professional readers!Taken on a professional Portrait shoot with French Artist, Martine Roch a couple of years ago. This one was never used but I now like the little surreal looking figure with a bucket in the corner!It was shot in that cold, sharp April light, the shadows being so dark, it […]
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Artist, beach, blond, breakwater, Caramel soft, carrying, carrying on, concept, Contra jour, figure, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, Languedoc, leaving, lone, man with buck, Martine Roch, mature, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, painterly, parting, Paul Grand, pink, portrait, Raw Linen, reflected light, reflector, Sea, single, strong, surreal, surrealist, Tex Box 1, uplighter, vacation, woman | Comments Off on Life goes on
Here I used our ‘Necropolis’ texture very lightly.By simply running your mouse over the image you’ll see before and after the textures were applied!
Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: back, beach, big sky, blue, blue hat, canvas, concentration, concept, Contra jour, cross ties, desaturated, far away, figure, France, French, illustrative, lady, landscape, Languedoc, legs, letter, low angle, mist, News, pale, Paul Grand, reading, sand, sand dunes, shadow, skies, soft, summer, Tex Box 1, vacation, wistful, woman | Comments Off on The Letter
Nora Batty (inspired by the BBC’s ‘Last of the summers wine’) was used here to illustrate Logistics or Summers End, when our local beach shack cafe was removed 🙁
Sep 17, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Beach Shack, concept, distance, figure, figures, France, French, Getty, illustrative, Languedoc, man, Mediterranean, Paul Grand, removal, ropes, sand, soft, structure, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation, winch, worker | Comments Off on Logistics
