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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...

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...

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...

Basic Texture Tutorial

Basic Texture Tutorial

In this first tutorial of what we hope will be a continuing series, I'll show you how to easily transform a photo by adding our Flypaper Textures. Mouseover to see the transformation. The original photo is nice enough, but I thought texture would add more depth and...