Texture Tutorials

Using The Glorious Grunge Texture Overlays

Using The Glorious Grunge Texture Overlays

Get extra intensity with a texture overlay. Use two layers: one set to multiply blend mode and the other at normal. Modify the colors with an adjustment layer.

March 20, 2012 | By | 4 Replies More
How To Use Texture Without The Color

How To Use Texture Without The Color

Get more usage from your textures! Before and After step by step tutorial on how to apply a colorful texture to an image without applying the color.

March 9, 2012 | By | 5 Replies More
Attention to Highlights Will Make Your Textured Photograph Shine

Attention to Highlights Will Make Your Textured Photograph Shine

Clean up your highlight areas in a textured photograph to bring your image to life. Use layer masks and layer adjustments to brighten and reveal.

February 13, 2012 | By | 5 Replies More

Featured Photographers

Interview With Photographer, Pamela Schmieder

Interview With Photographer, Pamela Schmieder

Pamela Schmieder’s textured photographs evoke a nostalgic charm and quiet beauty with still lifes, florals, antiques and every day items.

December 16, 2011 | By | 8 Replies More
A Painterly Touch: Interview with Photographer, Teresa Pople

A Painterly Touch: Interview with Photographer, Teresa Pople

Teresa Pople is an English photographer living in Greece. Her textured images have a delicate, painterly touch with delicious, fresh colors. I’ve interviewed Teresa and showcased 16 of her textured florals.

October 30, 2011 | By | 26 Replies More
Interview with Photographer Mandy Disher

Interview with Photographer Mandy Disher

Mandy Disher shares her approach to stunning floral and macro images with tips on using textures. Interview and 10 gorgeous images to feast your eyes.

August 5, 2011 | By | Reply More

Freebies

Free Action and Overlay: Add Color To Transparent PNG Overlays

Free Action and Overlay: Add Color To Transparent PNG Overlays

A free shortcut production action for Photoshop and Elements that will covert B&W transparent overlays to color. Plus a free overlay!

April 9, 2012 | By | 4 Replies More
Grunge Overlay Freebies

Grunge Overlay Freebies

4 FREE Grungy Overlays to add to your textures and images. An edge overlay, A spot overlay with vintage text and 2 vintage French letters.

March 23, 2012 | By | 25 Replies More
Free Mini Vintage French Photoshop Brush Stamp Sampler

Free Mini Vintage French Photoshop Brush Stamp Sampler

FREE! Give these 5 vintage French brush stamps a try and help me test Photoshop and Photoshop Elements versions! Png files included for other software.

January 13, 2012 | By | 17 Replies More

Before & After

Before & After: Vintage Still Life With Filters and Texture

Before & After: Vintage Still Life With Filters and Texture

I’ve used two Topaz Labs filters and a texture for this vintage still life. See the Before and After with details.

April 3, 2012 | By | Reply More
Before & After: Textured Quince Photo

Before & After: Textured Quince Photo

This Before & After continues the processing of this Quince Still Life from the previous post. Here the layers and final tweaks are applied .

January 24, 2012 | By | 4 Replies More
Post-Processing Rocks! Using Lightroom, Photoshop & A Topaz Labs Filter

Post-Processing Rocks! Using Lightroom, Photoshop & A Topaz Labs Filter

Post-Processing is the secret to getting great images out of your photographs. I share a Before & After from the original RAW file to processing in Lightroom, Photoshop and Finishing with a Topaz Labs filter. I’ve even included my Topaz filter preset as a download.

January 21, 2012 | By | 17 Replies More

News

New Affiliate Program For French Kiss Collections

New Affiliate Program For French Kiss Collections

Earn 20% commission with French Kiss Collections affiliate program.

April 27, 2012 | By | 2 Replies More
April Showers Bring May Flowers

April Showers Bring May Flowers

A rainy day in April brings birthday musings for both myself and French Kiss on goals and future projects. Have a look and add your own!

April 18, 2012 | By | 8 Replies More
I’ll Be Updating The Blog Soon

I’ll Be Updating The Blog Soon

I’ll be updating the French Kiss textures blog to be responsive and to have better image galleries.

April 5, 2012 | By | Reply More

Photoshop

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut: Copy Visible and Paste In A New Layer

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcut: Copy Visible and Paste In A New Layer

This Photoshop keyboard shortcut will copy all the visible layers and merge them into a new layer. I use this handy shortcut with with nearly every image.

May 15, 2012 | By | Reply More
Post-Processing Rocks! Using Lightroom, Photoshop & A Topaz Labs Filter

Post-Processing Rocks! Using Lightroom, Photoshop & A Topaz Labs Filter

Post-Processing is the secret to getting great images out of your photographs. I share a Before & After from the original RAW file to processing in Lightroom, Photoshop and Finishing with a Topaz Labs filter. I’ve even included my Topaz filter preset as a download.

January 21, 2012 | By | 17 Replies More
Using Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

Using Adjustment Layers in Photoshop

Photoshop’s adjustment layers are an essential part of post-processing. They allow you to make changes such as tonal adjustments to your image non-destructively. This tutorial will give you the basics of working with Adjustment Layers.

May 27, 2011 | By | 1 Reply More

Other Recent Posts

New Texture Collection: Glorious Grunge

New Texture Collection: Glorious Grunge

New Glorious Grunge Texture Collection. 24 Textures with lots of Edge Attitude. Based on vintage glass negatives.

March 19, 2012 | By | 2 Replies More
From My Desktop. The Many Layers Of A Texture!

From My Desktop. The Many Layers Of A Texture!

Quick screen grab of a texture in progress in Photoshop showing the many layers of fine-tuning.

March 15, 2012 | By | Reply More
Artist At Work: Audio Books For Texture Production

Artist At Work: Audio Books For Texture Production

The mind is like a small dog yapping at you with distractions. Having that part of the brain quieted leaves your intuitive brain free to take over. I use audio books for deep production work.

March 15, 2012 | By | Reply More