Creating dark backgrounds for outdoor flower photography
Nicole S. Young
It’s springtime, and that means the flowers are starting to bloom! Flower photography can be a fun way to create art for your walls, or
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Five tips for adding textures to your photos
Jason Hahn
The term “texture” is a catch-all term for adding either abstract images, detailed photos, or patterns of different surfaces, like metal, cracked paint, sand, etc. as an overlay on your image. This is a type of “compositing”, combining multiple images into one finished work. Adding textures to your images can change the mood, create special effects, strengthen the composition, or help better tell a story. These five concepts will help you add textures more easily, realistically, and quickly in Adobe Photoshop
Using creative textures with still life photography
Julie Powell
Where does blurring the line between straight photography and digital art happen? Is it in the styling, the shoot or the edit? I often teach
Use local masking in LuminarAI with transparent overlays to create layered special effects
Jemma Pollari
The latest update to LuminarAI adds Photoshop-like layers to this already-powerful editing suite. Accessed in the Local Masking section of LuminarAI, now you can upload
LuminarAI adds sky reflections, Local Masking tool enhancements
Photofocus Team
This morning, Skylum announced LuminarAI Update 2, which includes SkyAI water reflections, texture overlays in the Local Masking tool and more. The update is free to
Gorgeous details of a Zen garden in minimalist monochrome
Joy Celine Asto
One of the strengths of minimalism in photography is how it’s great for capturing the glorious details of a scene. This way, you can get
Architectural photography in Paris’ La Seine Musicale
Joy Celine Asto
While he specializes in photographing the major cities and landscapes of America, Paris-based Ludwig Favre is also never short of architectural photography that showcases the
Abstract photography turns motion into gorgeous textures
Joy Celine Asto
Motion in photography typically evokes concepts like energy, activity and restlessness. That makes it a powerful visual cue for portraying the frenetic energy of the
A look at Adobe Capture’s latest updates for photographers
Lauri Novak
Adobe recently added a couple of features to its Adobe Capture app. If you’re not familiar with this Adobe app (I wasn’t) you may want
How to Enhance Your Photos With Textures – Part 2: Blending
Jason Hahn
When using textures to enhance your photos in Photoshop, blending is how you reveal your image below the texture layer or tell the texture layer
How to Enhance Your Photos With Textures – Part 1: Adding Textures
Jason Hahn
In photography a texture image or “texturing” is used to enhance or accent some part of the image in your digital darkroom. Â Although they can help you create eye-catching works of art, textures also can be very easy to overdo. In this article I’ll explain my process for adding textures to my photography, using Adobe Stock and Photoshop, Â to create more impact, transform the mood of the image, or improve on the composition.
How to Transform Your Photos With Texture Layers in Luminar 2018 Part 2
Jason Hahn
For this composite, my goal was to produce a version of my galloping wild horses image that looks like it’s been drawn and woodburned onto an old board. Not sure why, I just thought it would look cool, the inspiration behind many my composites. Having an idea of what you want to make before you start usually produces the best results. But, don’t be so in love with your idea you can’t change as you create your composite.
At this point, I have my horse picture processed and saved as a high resolution TIF file, and have found a nice wood texture I want to use as the background texture. Ideally you want these texture files to be high-resolution also, so that you can print your finished piece later. Using a 400 pixel wide texture will result in a blurry grainy mess, it’s too small to print it big later.
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