Without further ado, welcome to the 2nd set of much requested fly presets! The first set was a general catching-up set, but in feedback people told us they were slightly overwhelmed with 80+ presets so this time it’s a reduced, creme de la creme set that will keep you au courant with all the […]
Jan 29, 2014 | Categories: Blog | Tags: effects, Flypaper Nik Presets 2, Nik Color efex, pack, photoshop, presets | Comments Off on Flypaper Nik Presets 2 Launch
From Jill and I, ‘Paul’ hope you all had Happy Holidays! 🙂 As its now midwinter, I thought it might be nice to revisit the summer, last August on a balmy evening on England’s Eastborne beach at sunset. One good thing about post-processing is its always possible to go back and redo images with your […]
Jan 02, 2012 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Albion, Autumn Painterly Pack, Eastbourne, England, metal, moody, Nik, Paul Grand, photoshop, pier, popular, sand, Sea, south coast, Summer Painterly Pack, vacation, victorian | Comments Off on Albion on Sea
A big thanks to Ellen for her kind texture feature on dpreview and a warm welcome to their visiting fans! Once again its the time of year for my favorite misty, foggy mornings in the Mediterranean! As soon as I open my shutters and spy mist outside, I need to work fast, as the sun […]
Dec 06, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Adobe Camera Raw, Autumn Painterly Pack, Brushed Rose, canal, France, French, Getty, Languedoc, leaf peak, Mediterranean, mist, moody, Nik, painterly, Pantheon Stone, Paul Grand, photoshop, Russell Brown Adobe Texture Panel, Spring Painterly Pack, trees | Comments Off on Voyage through canal mist
Its always nice to wake up and find another one of your babies gracing a published book cover! Here’s today’s, an American thriller, heavily textured with our flypaper painterly textures. Its just a preview copy as its not yet out, so I expect their colours will hopefully not be as muddled as this one with […]
Nov 29, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: action, Beziers, bookcover, city, drama, figures, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, lensbaby, medieval streets, Mediterranean, moody, movement, novel, Opal, Paul Grand, photoshop, published, Spring Painterly Pack, Summer Painterly Pack, Swans Way, Tempest Sea, thriller, woman | Comments Off on Chasing the wind
Just to show that I don’t just do pale soft flowers and also to show how textures (and toning) can change the entire feel of an image. Our fly edges work well on black and white images especially if you want to portray a gritty “early photography” look. I started by converting the base image […]
Feb 10, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Black and white, Fly Edges, monotone, photoshop, Render lighting, Summer Painterly Pack | Comments Off on Grunge flowers
Another wet day here so I decided to do a very basic tutorial on masking in photoshop. Using a mask is how I remove unwanted texture from parts of an image, it’s a great way to do this as it’s fully reversible and adjustable. Mouseover the image above to see the before photo. I started […]
May 28, 2010 | Categories: Tutorials | Tags: Fly Edges, Layer mask, photoshop, Tex Box 2, Tutorial | Comments Off on Basic Layer mask tutorial
I’ve kept this one back a few months because it was a first try-out with the as then unpublished; Lost Void & Lime Plaster textures.Its just a shot of Geraniums & ivy on our north facing window ledge.They caught the sunlight glancing off the stone house windows opposite.I liked the way this texture combination gives […]
Dec 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Geraniums, glass effect, Green, ivy, Languedoc, lime plaster, lost void, Mediterranean, Necropolis, Paul Grand, photoshop, Still Life, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, window box | Comments Off on Geraniums
Just like to take this opportunity to thank all our customers and viewers and wish everybody from both of us – Happy Holidays!:-)Here’s an oldie but a Goldie, taken with a 75-300m zoom lens in the summer at a small lavender farm at Barjac in the Gard area of the south of France. Processed first […]
Dec 26, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Barjac, butterfly, flowers, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Gard, Getty, Languedoc, lavender farm, Mediterranean, Paul Grand, Phosphorescence, Photomatrix, photoshop, published, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation | Comments Off on Butterfly Bliss
It’s Christmas eve here in New Zealand and my Christmas preparations are largely complete thank goodness!! In some ways I envy you northern hemisphere people your winter Christmas celebrations. As well as preparing for Christmas we have to cope with organising summer holidays as most people take their annual leave after Christmas, the end of […]
Dec 24, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: abundance, abundance of blossom, apple blush, Archival Canvas, blue and white stripes, ceramic, christmas, Colosseum Sienna, cornish wear, cutting, deep, Dunedin, english, flowers, graveyard, indoors, Jill Ferry, jug, ming, natural light, New Zealand, old roses, peach blush, petals, photoshop, red, rustic, spray, stolen, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, wonderful fragrance | Comments Off on Christmas Roses
Our Southern French countryside is dotted with these ancient stone windmill ruins. There must be hundreds but I’ve seen only a couple that have been restored. The backdrop being our black mountains, which help to protect our Mediterranean coastal plains from the worst excesses of the northern European winter cold.The field contains freshly planted vines, […]
Dec 17, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Antique Liaisons, Caramel Cream, Chlorophyll, coastal, flowers, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, heady perfume, hilltop, Labyrinth, landscape, Languedoc, lost void, Mediterranean, moody, mountains, Ordinance Map, Paul Grand, photoshop, Raw Linen, ruined windmill, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation, viners, vineyard | Comments Off on ruined windmill story
Sometimes when you’re texturing it’s a toss up between the subtle approach or a heavy treatment. With this iris I spent what seemed like hours trying to get the balance right, it looked nice subtle but in my eyes anyway, looks better with the texture more pronounced. I processed it using a mix of Textures, […]
Dec 16, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Algae, Chlorophyll, flower, Flypaper Textures, Green, iris, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, painterly, photoshop, purple, Rainbow Trout, Tarte Tatin, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on Flypaper Iris
Some more roses from my garden, these ones sadly have almost finished flowering and being “old roses” only flower the once each season, but they more than make up for that with the abundance of blossom and wonderful fragrance.I grew the bush from a cutting I’d appropriated from our local historic cemetery 🙂 After my […]
Dec 13, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: abundance, abundance of blossom, apple blush, blue and white stripes, ceramic, Colosseum Sienna, cornish wear, cutting, deep, Dunedin, english, flowers, graveyard, indoors, Jill Ferry, jug, natural light, New Zealand, old roses, petals, photoshop, red, rustic, spray, stolen, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, wonderful fragrance | Comments Off on Abundance
Another photo from a day trip to a wonderfully frosty Central Otago last winter -many of my photos that day were taken out the car window, a shooting technique I’m getting very practised at as my driver gets sick of me asking him to stop. Anyway in this photo I cropped off some of the […]
Dec 11, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: cold blue, Flypaper Textures, grunge, Holms, Jill Ferry, landscape, lost void, ming, mist, New Zealand, photoshop, tree, winter | Comments Off on Midwinter…
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 | Comments Off on m e s s e n g e r
Lora, who is a semi-professional photographer from Seattle, wrote to say that she loves our new texture pack and has shared her lovely Black Birds images of before and after and even her recipe! We hope to showcase more of your donated images and recipes, just drop us a line! 🙂 Lora used Lightroom to […]
Dec 05, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Algae, Black Birds, Colosseum Sienna, Flypaper Textures, guest, Lightroom, Lora, moody, photographer, photoshop, Seattle, sky, Sunflower Sky, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tree branches, trees | Comments Off on Black Birds ~ Our first guest post !
Another shot taken on a walk on the lovely Doctors Point Beach just to the north of Dunedin. These same people appear in a similar shot but I processed this one quite differently which shows how a different textures can give the same scene a whole new look. As well as some Flypaper Textures, I […]
Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Bruised Saffron, Doctors Point Beach, Dunedin, figures, Flypaper Textures, Jill Ferry, landscape, lens blur, New Zealand, photoshop, red, sand, Sea, selected focus, Shargreen Bone, soft, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tilt shift effect, vacation | Comments Off on Five
On the same day but taken just before the last ‘Reflected Light’ posting. This is inside our Beziers Park of the poets, decorated with many stone carved busts. Its made up of two pictures, merged in photoshop, as my Autopanopro was playing up!A more finished/textured version of this image is on my Flickr site. As […]
Nov 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Autopanopro, autumnal, bust, Caramel soft, Flypaper Textures, France, French, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, merged, moody, Necropolis, painterly, park of the poets, Paul Grand, photoshop, poet, Raw Linen, statue, surreal, Tex Box 1, trees, vacation | Comments Off on Bust and tree
A simple use of Flypapers Raw Linen in full blur mode.Blend hard light Opacity was 100%, fill Opacity @ 94% Necropolis texture was used to finish.Blend soft light 48% and fill opacity @ 57%. Just these two textures were used to create an almost ‘sepia effect’ of a visitor, perhaps from the past.
Oct 03, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: concept, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, illustrative, Languedoc, lone, man, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, photoshop, Raw Linen, sand, Sea, sepia effect, shaw, soft, strange, stranger, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on visitor from the past
This is a favorite view of mine, taken from St Nazaire cathedral in Beziers, looking N/West. The water mill is best seen in winter because the trees obscure its view. In this image I wanted to be rid of the pesky houses at the bottom, so I simply cloned them out! It took over one […]
Oct 02, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Uncategorized | Tags: filter, Flypaper Textures, France, French, grunge, landscpe, Languedoc, Liaisons, Mediterranean, Necropolis, Paul Grand, photoshop, poster edges, river, Tex Box 1, vacation, valley, view, water colour effect, water tower | Comments Off on View from St Nazaire
