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Between a rock and a hard place

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Because of Covid restrictions, I’ve been going through my back catalogue and came up with this image from 10 years ago, taken at the base of the chalk cliffs on the edge of England’s Eastbourne on the south coast.

Getting up at the crack of dawn – I went back to my hotel for breakfast – for some nice authentic sea mist, I quickly built this chalk pebble tower to add a bit of height to the foreground. I made it exceptionally difficult for myself by using a Lensbaby, these days it’s probably better to use a normal lens and photoshop the effect, but you never get the same ‘analogue feel’ and it does give lovely blurred edges that are perfect to texture, anyhow, no pain – no gain!

From the base image, you can see that I cleaned up the chalk pebbles and removed a feature in the sky which was a distraction. It wasn’t so bad in this square crop but it spoilt the portrait version.

Processing was fairly simple, firstly I used the Ink Cep4 filter in the Nik Color app to add an attractive colour cast and brighten up the shadows, then I used three Flypaper Textures from our Impressionist Painterly collection, loaded into Dr. Russell Brown’s fabulous Paper Panel script in Photoshop.

Recipe

Lemmen – Soft Light @ 30%

Menzil – Overlay @ 28%

Whistler – Soft Light @ 30%

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Aug 09, 2021 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Between a rock and a hard place

Luminar ai sky

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We’d both like to wish all our fans a very Merry Christmas and Happy virol free New Year!

Before the bleak mid-winter sets in, or high summer for our lucky Oz/Nz fans, we thought you’d like to hear about this fab new Luminar ai app which is a stand-alone app and/or works with Photoshop and Lightroom to breathe new life into your boring or blown-out skies, filling negative space from a list of included skies that come pre-packed inside the app or upload your own skies.

Here I chose a sunset sky from the app. This was my first attempt and so I was delighted with the painterly effect achieved. Not only does it blend, but it also automatically changes the foreground colour to match the sky. In this case, warming it up.

After using the Luminar App, I thought I’d make it more painterly by running it through Topaz impression 2 @ just 50% strength to help smooth out the image then a final painterly Flypaper Texture to finish! 🙂

Flypaper Texture Brushed Rose – Overlay @ 100%

Luminar ai – Toscana Sunset sky @ 100%

Flypaper Brushed Rose is from the Summer Painterly Pack, it also appears in the Texture Panel Selection Pack

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We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Dec 21, 2020 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , | Comments Off on Luminar ai sky

Canvas Texture Selection Launch

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Welcome to our Canvas Selection Texture pack!

After receiving many requests over the years for an artist’s canvas themed pack we finally pulled this selection together from all our packs and then created almost half as many more new textures, filling gaps in the collection with natural burlap, rough dark linen, tinted canvas and much more.

This texture pack goes perfectly with our last Impressionist texture pack, helping create a total artistic effect and pull your painterly images together. Canvasses are a marriage made in heaven for soft painterly processed imagery, they’re also good for background textures and adding interest and filling negative space.

This pack is going to be a classic all-rounder, the colours and the textures inspire many processing possibilities. The formats are mostly landscape but also portrait and a few squares, hopefully, this should keep our portrait fans happy as they have been requesting more portrait formats and in any case, the landscapes can easily be turned 90 degrees to suit any format.

Please note that if you have a lot of our previous collections you may already have some of the textures in this pack.

This pack contains 56 textures (including 26 brand new textures) most are rectangular but there are some squares, they are made in minimum sized 4000 pixels on their shortest edge and are at industry printing standard 300ppi.

All our textures can be used in any editing program that supports the use of layers, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp etc You can also use our textures on your iPad, Android and smartphones if you have a suitable app installed. You can only use them in Lightroom if you use an add-on that allows Lightroom to use layers such as Perfect Layers.
To download, click on the add to cart button, a download link will be sent to you upon payment.

Canvas Texture Selection

56 Canvas  Painterly Textures

 

$40

Please note, it’s a big file so why not grab a coffee while you’re waiting for the download 🙂

Textures in the Canvas Pack with their original packs in brackets are: Albarium, Albatross, Anemon (Tempest Painterly), Anqelique Glace (Autumn Painterly), Apple Blush (Tex Box 2), Aquilegia, Artists Canvas, Beau Linge Paysage (Spring Painterly), Belgian Linen, Botticelli, Burlap, Byzantine (Distressed Painterly), Canvas 9 (Fine Cracks), Canvas 13 (Fine Cracks), Canvas 21 Fine Cracks), Changean, Clove Pink, Cosimo, Danielli (August Painterly), Dowlas Linen, Dusky Silk, El Greco, Fortuna (Waxworks), Gaia (Waxworks), Gotico (August Painterly), Gulls Wing, Hawthorn, Heron, Hydrangea, Jongkind (Impressionist Painterly), Kereru, Larkspur, Linen 1 (fine Cracks), Linenize, Memling, Miranda (Tempest Painterly), Muscatel rectangle (tex box 2), Necropolis (Tex box 1), Nora Batty (Tex Box 1), Orange Blossom (Spring Painterly), Organza (Distressed Painterly), Ortega (Impressionist Painterly), Paysage Linge (Spring Painterly), Raw Linen (Tex Box 1), Sail Cloth (Tex Box 2), Selene, Shantung, Sidaner, Sisley (Spring Painterly), Strudel, Surat Meadow (Distressed Painterly), Tern, Vail (Impressionist PainterlY, Vignette 24 (Vignettes), Vignette 30 (Vignettes), Volger (impressionist Painterly)

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Oct 12, 2020 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Canvas Texture Selection Launch

Golden Pears

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We hope you’re enjoying the new Impressionist Painterly pack as much as we are!
I thought I’d share how I processed these pears with the new textures. I’m sure you’ll agree that the beginning image was very flat so I decided to add a couple of Impressionist textures and voila….it’s turned an ordinary pear photo into something special.

Anyway here’s the details:
Eakins @ Softlight 100%
Guillaumin @ Overlay 100%
At this stage it was looking good but to lift things further I turned to Nik Colour Efex and added a couple of filters to tweak tone etc. You could easily do this using normal Photoshop adjustments if you don’t have Nik.

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Jul 08, 2020 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Golden Pears

Impressionist Painterly Launch

Impressionist Painterly

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Welcome to our lockdown created Impressionist Painterly Texture pack! We created these real-life oil painted textures over several months, shooting them in natural daylight or ‘en plein air’ to get the most out of this oil paint effect. The impressionists also worked during the evenings for ‘effets de soir’ producing richly shadowed, moody effects using visible spontaneous brushstrokes to convey an atmospheric impression of changing natural daylight.

These innovative artists went against their Victorian contemporaries and did not tend to use transparent glazes or paint on traditional brown gazed canvas, preferring white bases for their paintings. We have followed their example and created this pack in the same spirit and we hope you have as much fun using them as we did in creating them, without the oil paint smell! 😉 Incidentally they were also the first real painting movement to work from Photographs, many of the most famous impressionists were inspired by photography and so we’ve now come full circle and we’re incorporating brush strokes in our photo art!

This Impressionist painterly texture pack was designed to add a subtle or strong, mostly oil painting effect on canvas to your fine art photography or to use as overlays or backdrops. The brushstrokes are mostly in the impasto technique, much favoured by the Impressionist movement.  Scroll down to see the textures in use.

To make the most out of these painterly textures we suggest golden hour shot images but they’ll work well on pretty much any image. This is our biggest ever pack with a whopping 57 rectangular textures, made in minimum sized 4000 x 6000 pixels and are at industry printing standard 300ppi.

All our textures can be used in any editing programme that supports the use of layers, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp etc You can also use our textures on your iPad, Android and smartphones if you have a suitable app installed. You can only use them in Lightroom if you use an add-on that allows Lightroom to use layers such as Perfect Layers.
To download, click on the add to cart button, a download link will be sent to you upon payment.

Flypaper Impressionist Painterly

57 Painterly Textures

 

$40

Please note, it’s a big file so why not grab a coffee while you’re waiting for the download 🙂

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

The Pier with Flypaper Impressionist Textures
Roses with Flypaper Impressionist textures.

Jun 23, 2020 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Impressionist Painterly Launch

Black Mill

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During these strange locked down Coronavirus days its always good to have images to fall back on. Upon finding this image I’d taken 10 years ago, in Rottingdean near Brighton where this huge black Beacon Mill overlooks the English Channel. When it was built back in 1802, it defiantly faced France with its great Napoleonic foe.
Here these black sentinels are still facing the wind some 218 years later, though now in genteel retirement, their flour grinding days are sadly long gone. This one stands in the rough, on the edge of a charming hilltop golf course.
There used to be many such windmills but now all but a handful survive.
These particular mills were made famous in a classic Michael Cain Movie;
The Black Mill. The two windmills in that movie are in nearby Brighton.

I thought I’d try our latest pack of Edwardian Antique Edges with it and loved the final moody antique grunge effect.

Processing was very easy, I first desaturated the very colourful base image in Photoshop and loaded the Flypaper Antique Edges into Russel Brown’s free Adobe paper texture App, which makes texturing a delight without re-sizing and pulling the textures to fit.

The three textures used were as below:

Edwardian Edges Plate 16 Divide @ 23%

Edwardian Edges Plate 15 Divide @ 49%

Edwardian Edges Plate 46 Divide @ 46%

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Mar 19, 2020 | Categories: Blog | Comments Off on Black Mill

Birthday Sale

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We started Flypaper Textures ten years ago, way back in September 2009!

Over those years we’ve published around 30 packs, many of which were inovative and even admired by rival sellers, but don’t worry, we’re not over creating new textures, we still have more up our sleeves!

So we thought we’d do a one-off 30% discount on everything sale! Simply enter the code Ten on purchase to receive the discount, valid until October 31st!

To celebrate further we’re doing this catch-up launch of a similar full size version  of  our textures which are included with the Adobe texture panel,  these have up till now just been in a web sized 72 dpi version. After many fans requests for this full size version we are now publishing this whopping 51 sized texture selection pack! This pack can now serve as a full size compilation sample pack, as it contains textures from a wide variety of Flypaper packs, from Tin Edges, to cracks and metallic and loads from our very popular painterly sets, its basically an all rounder pack! 

Panel textures mosaic
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This pack is a high resolution version of the panel textures that you’ll possibly already have if you’ve purchased a wide variety of previous Flypaper Texture packs. 

The textures range in size, but are all 4000 pixels on their shortest edge, they are all at industry printing standard 300ppi for perfect printing.

All our textures can be used in any editing programme that supports the use of layers, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp etc You can also use our textures on your iPad, Android and smartphones if you have a suitable app installed. You can only use them in Lightroom if you use an add-on that allows Lightroom to use layers such as Perfect Layers.
To download, click on the add to cart button, a download link will be sent to you upon payment.

Texture Panel Selection Pack

51 Assorted Textures

 

$40

Please note, it’s a big file so why not grab a coffee while you’re waiting for the download 🙂

The textures in the Panel Selection Pack with their original pack names in brackets are:

Alice (Metallic), Apple Blush (Tex Box 1), Atlantic (Paper Painterly), Aquaflore (Autumn Painterly), Aquarius (Summer Painterly), Brushed Rose(Summer Painterly), Burnished Clay (Tex Box 2), Casanova (August Painterly), Caspian (Paper Painterly), Chatsworth (Autumn Painterly), Colosseum Sienna (Tex Box 2), Creme Anglais (Spring Painterly), Dangerous Liaisons (Tex Box 1) Danielli (August Painterly), Dawn Grunge (Summer Painterly), Dorian Grey (Summer Painterly), Elysisum (Tex Box 1) , Fly Edge 3 (Fly Edges), Fly Edge 4(Fly Edges), Ezekiel Plum (Summer Painterly), Gertrude Jekyll (Autumn Painterly), Hampton (Autumn Painterly), Iridescent Brush (Summer Painterly), Labyrinth (Tex Box 2), Leaky Garrett (Tex Box 1), Lemoncello (Spring Painterly), Lime Plaster (Tex Box 2), Lyme Fossil (Spring Painterly), Masque (August Painterly), Metallic Ice (Metallic), Muscatel (Tex Box 2), Necropolis (Tex Box 1), Newt Spring Painterly), Nuriel Clouds (Summer Painterly), Oakmoss (Autumn Painterly) Orange Blossom (Spring Painterly), Oval Crack, Pastel Copper (Metallic), Peach Blush (Tex Box 2},Pistacho (Summer Painterly), Rainbow Trout (Tex Box 2}, Raw Linen (Tex Box 1}, Rococo (August Painterly),Sakura Skies (Spring Painterly), Sariel Leather (Summer Painterly), Smoker (Metallic), Stygian Tin (Summer Painterly), Touchstone (Summer Painterly), Verdigris Scratch (Metallic), Versailles (Autumn Painterly), Villa Adriana (Spring Painterly).

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Oct 04, 2019 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , | Comments Off on Birthday Sale

Edwardian Edges Launch

Edwardian Edges
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Need to add authentic age to Steampunk imagery or attain a fantasy Alice in Wonderland photographic look?
Did you yearn for a natural large plate format photographic feel?
Have you ever wanted natural un-contrived edges that are not the everyday humdrum TTV retro, but something a little bit special?
Then this is the product for you!:-)

Three years ago on 2016 we launched our best selling Edges 3, since then we’ve scoured not only France but also New Zealand and have gleaned a whole new batch of worthy Glass Edges! This time after your feedback we have processed in a darker way so that they should be even easier to use, they also look quite different to past Edges packs for a fresh new processing experience.

All our edges derive from 100 + year antique French and New Zealand glass silvered plates, lovingly scanned in TIF, then cleaned and processed in a secret way we have developed ourselves, to show only grunge, without the original image. These were produced to be as widely used as possible, both in their original format, or cut and pulled square.

This new bigger than ever, 50 plate pack is in mostly landscape format, its colours are still soft and easy to use and we believe this bigger than ever set will compliment the earlier classic edges sets beautifully.    

The textures are around  6000 by 4000 pixels and are at industry printing standard 300ppi for perfect printing.

All our textures can be used in any editing programme that supports the use of layers, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp etc You can also use our textures on your iPad, Android and smartphones if you have a suitable app installed. You can only use them in Lightroom if you use an add-on that allows Lightroom to use layers such as Perfect Layers.
To download, click on the add to cart button, a download link will be sent to you upon payment.

Flypaper Edwardian Edges

50 Antique Edge Textures

 

$40

Please note, it’s a big file so why not grab a coffee while you’re waiting for the download 🙂

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Aug 21, 2019 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Comments Off on Edwardian Edges Launch

Provencal Fountain

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Whilst picking up my first two swarms of honeybees in the Provencal town of Bollene I spied this typical French village fountain, I quickly took this picture and dismissed it as I thought I could never use it as it was too cluttered.

Only after we released our Provencal pack did I look again and started playing with it.  I chose one of our last years Nik Fly Pastel presets which blurred the edges, pulling it all together beautifully.

I then tried a very grungy zinc based texture from the Provencal pack and it worked perfectly. After removing a couple of edge distractions I could also have removed the ‘No Drinking’ signs but decided to leave it there. Finally, I upped the contrast and eh-voila, a refreshing new look from Fly!

Finally, there is still time for you lucky readers to use our ‘Nice’ code to obtain your 5 dollar discount from our brand new Provencal textures pack, but hurry as this limited time offer finishes on Sunday 16th June! 🙂

Nik Fly Pastel ‘Chamomile’ preset  (with a couple of filters clicked off)

Marseille @ 100% Overlay

Flypaper Provençal Textures

51 Grunge Textures

 

$40

Please note, it’s a big file so why not grab a coffee while you’re waiting for the download 🙂

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

Jun 11, 2019 | Categories: Blog | Comments Off on Provencal Fountain

Provençal Textures Launch

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Welcome to our Provençal Texture pack! We’ve sourced this pack from ancient Provençal villages earlier this summer, using their natural clay tints which were mined from their world famous open clay pits that have also been used to manufacture artists pigments for hundreds of years. These soft toned pigments are sprinkled throughout this soft summery themed pack of grunge.

Photographed on sun-scorched lazy afternoons in tiny medieval Provençal villages whilst the locals took their siestas through the cigal and cricket chirping afternoons. Their ancient natural sun aged pastel painted house colours form the base textures of this pack, their place names used throughout to name the textures from the salty fishing port of Marseille where they drink Rose wine and tiny black coffees in zinc bars along the Cote d’Azure to gorgeous pastel toned resorts of Cassis, Saint Tropez, Cannes and Nice then up to the Roussillon clay pits in the heart of the Vaucluse, where the sun-baked soft ochre clay of the Apt valley was mined for painting their village house-fronts. Then moving through sunflower fields of Orange, up to the fragrant, soft purple lavender fields of the northern end of Drome valley where the famous early morning, truffle markets crown our Provençal odyssey!  

This Provencal pack contains 51 rectangular tonally coloured textures which have an affinity for use with your landscapes as these are mostly landscape orientated textures. This French summer themed pack comprises of several painterly,  zinc and metallic scratched based textures, the rest are derived from soft toned natural clay pigmented masonry and grungy paint. This is an easy to use all-rounder pack which also contains the 51 thumbs in a folder you’ll need to be able to load into Dr Russell Brown’s Adobe Texture Panel without having to produce your own thumbs.

The textures have a minimum size of 6000 by 4000 pixels and are at industry printing standard 300ppi.

All our textures can be used in any editing programme that supports the use of layers, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Gimp etc You can also use our textures on your iPad, Android and smartphones if you have a suitable app installed. You can only use them in Lightroom if you use an add-on that allows Lightroom to use layers such as Perfect Layers.
To download, click on the add to cart button, a download link will be sent to you upon payment.

Flypaper Provençal Textures

51 Grunge Textures

 

$40

Please note, it’s a big file so why not grab a coffee while you’re waiting for the download 🙂

Please visit our Pack page or Combo Pack page to buy Flypaper Textures. Or our Preset Page to buy Nik Presets
We recommend: Topaz filters and Skylum software

May 31, 2019 | Categories: Blog | Tags: , , , , | Comments Off on Provençal Textures Launch

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