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Grunge Hydrangea

I reprocessed this image for Mary's article over at the Digital Photography School,  to help illustrate how using different textures on the same image can  completely change the feel of a photo, it's one of the things textures are so useful for. The earlier version is...

at the watermark

Firstly, Jill and I would like to say a big Hi to the fans of the DPS site! It was a pleasure to answer questions for Mary Andrade's feature on - 'Tips for Texturing Photographs' over on the DPS site. For all newcomers to to Flypaper, simply mouse-over the images for...

three girls running

Firstly, Jill and I would like to say a big Hi to the fans of the DPS site! It was a pleasure to answer questions for Mary Andrade's feature on - 'Tips for Texturing Photographs' over on the DPS site. For all newcomers to to Flypaper, simply mouse-over the images for...

Ode

Another photo of one of my favourite photographic subjects, I never get sick of the climbing hydrangea! The photo was taken with my wonderful new Pentax 50-135 f2.8 lens, it produces some lovely bokeh. I textured this on the laptop while I was at our country hut this...

Powder Blue Hydrangea

I am enjoying playing with the new Spring Flypapers, although we trialled them extensively prior to release it's always fun coming up with new combinations and finding out what works with a certain style of photo.  Over in our Flypaper flickr group there's a thread...

The Art Critic

Another image taken during the recent spring high tides. The model is standing on the shoreline with a sand pool in front. These strange wigwam structures are built from driftwood, we have no idea who makes them or for what purpose, however any structures add...

À la recherche du temps perdu

Welcome to the first Flypaper Spring texture recipe! We're really pleased to be able to use the freshly named textures, as before naming we used various numbers and joked that they only really come to life once they are named! During the extraordinary high spring...

The Provence Cure for the Brokenhearted

This publication has just been released so we're delighted to share! This book cover Designed by Natalie Winter and has to be our favorite production so far! Lavishly produced with folding flaps, embossed type fonts with lavender textures and of course, our dear old...

Roses transformed

This is a photo that's been sitting in my archives for ages, I didn't like the dark wood I had shot against so it had been rejected. This afternoon I had a bit of time to play and managed, quite easily too,  to disguise the darkness. It's inspired me, so hope it might...

Blueberry

First of all I thought  I'd tell you about the Photoshop texture blending scripts created by our friends over at Digital Outback Photo,  they're pretty easy to use and great for the photographer in a hurry! I do have a blueberry bush in my garden but this year for...