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.
Texture Tutorials
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.
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.
Featured Photographers
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.
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.
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.
Freebies
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!
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.
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.
Before & After
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.
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 .
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.
News
New Affiliate Program For French Kiss Collections
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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!
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.
Photoshop
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.
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.
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.
Other Recent Posts
New Texture Collection: Glorious Grunge
New Glorious Grunge Texture Collection. 24 Textures with lots of Edge Attitude. Based on vintage glass negatives.
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.
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.
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