These lovely little forget-me-nots grow like a weed in my garden, I can see why they're so successful at spreading too, as their seeds tend to stick to your clothes in a big way! Of course I don't mind their weedy tendencies at all, in fact they're one of my favourite...
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Ginkgo (with recipe)
Another archive shot from my "famous" basement! When you're using textures, it often pays to try out lots of different blending modes as sometimes the ones you'd not think would work give great results.In this photo for example I used a couple of blending modes I...
visitor from the past
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...
View from St Nazaire
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...
Fly (with texture recipe)
I took this beach scene on a wintry beach walk a couple of months ago and rediscovered it earlier when I was hunting for a landscape to process.I like my skies big, so I did a little cloning in of new sky at the top....thankfully my rough cloning has been covered with...
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.
Dragonfly on the sand dunes
To enliven this dragonfly in front of an 'out of focus' sand dune,I simply added several layers of flypaper's 'Nora batty'At various mixes.
Golden Daisies (with texture recipe)
I "played" with this photo for hours before coming up with this and thought you might like to know my "recipe". Though of course you'll have to treat the instructions as a guide as no two photos react in the same way when treated with texture.First I duplicated my...
Mist in the trees tutorial
For this misty mountain top landscape,
I used just two flypaper textures,
Circles of your mind
Here I used five of our 'flypaper 1' textures.I find that using several textures at a gentle opacity, really helps build up interesting depth and atmosphere!Pomeii StuccoBruised SaffronRaw LinenWhite ShagreenElysium