Playing With Textures

I posted a tutorial a couple of weeks ago on using textures in Photoshop CS2. After downloading and using other peoples textures I decided to make a few of my own. I've been playing with them today and wanted to share an example and some "how I did it's".

Here is a link to the original tutorial.

Here is the link to my textures. I have added a few more since the tutorial. They are free for you to download, but please, do not claim them as your own or add them to any other groups of textures for download.

Here is the original.


After following the tutorial above, these are three of the finished products.

This is using the Sandstone texture/overlay blending mode/adding a little Gaussian blur to sandstone layer/flatten image.


This one is Weathered Wood/Overlay blend mode/adjust opacity/flatten image.



and this one is one of my favorites. I love the look of shadows it gives to the apple blossom.

On this one I used the Sage Grass texture/soft light blending mode/a little Gaussian blur/reduced the opacity just a tiny bit/flattened image.


And here they are for a comparison.


Hope you enjoy these. Please post comments and questions if you have them. Thanks!

Photoshop Actions

by me! This is a set of 5 actions. They are

DD Dark and Dreamy: Gives your photo a little depth and dreaminess.
DD Trim: Trims any excess transparent space from your image. This is nice if you make siggies or anything that has extra transparent space on your canvas.
DD White Balance: Brightens your photos.
DD Stroke and Frame: Adds a white frame trimmed in black to your photos.
DD Burlapped: Gives a textured burlap (a bit grungy) look to your photos. I use the Color Burn blend mode but you can change the blend mode to get the effect you are looking for.

You can check the the dialog on/off box in any of these actions to make the steps interactive. By doing this you can change any of the settings (such as color, opacity, blend mode, etc) as the actions go through the steps.

Here's a few pics using the Stroke and Frame, Soft and Dreamy and Burlapped actions.

You can get them as a set here.





Hope you enjoy them. No link back required, but please do not claim them as your own.

Textures for Photoshop

These textures are available in files sizes up to 1024 x 768. Just choose which size you want to download from my Flickr album or you can get all of them in the 1024 x 768 size by downloading them as a set from the link below.



These were made by me. No link back required; however, I would not mind being mentioned if you feel like it, but please don't claim them as your own. Thank you.

You can grab them individually here.

Or download them as a set from here.