by Leslie Nicole | Oct 30, 2012 | Before & After, Using Textures
Perusing my image database today, I found this photograph of an ornamental cabbage that I took a few years ago. I didn’t like the glass vase showing and this simple capture really needed some post-processing love to portray the vibrancy of the original. Base...
by Leslie Nicole | Sep 26, 2012 | Using Textures, Video
A Few tips for placing and resizing textures using the transform tool in Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. The text below follows the video pretty closely. Placing The Texture I like to use tabbed windows in Photoshop and drag the texture into my image file. (You can...
by Leslie Nicole | Mar 20, 2012 | Using Textures
I’ve used one of the Glorious Grunge Edge overlays on this slightly textured Fuchsia photograph. I wanted the border stand out, so I’ve used the overlay twice. Once with a blend mode of multiply and then again at normal. Hover your mouse over the image to...
by Leslie Nicole | Mar 9, 2012 | Using Textures
Let’s say you want to apply some texture to an image, but you don’t want to change the colors of your image. Let’s look at a few methods you can use. The Original Image Here’s a photograph I took of some boats on the Vienne river (a tributary...
by Leslie Nicole | Feb 13, 2012 | Using Textures
Back when I taught Hand Coloring, I always emphasized how important highlights are. Cleaning up the highlights in an image can make the difference between an OK image and an image that comes to life. Note: I’ve stopped using mouse hovers for the Before / After...
by Leslie Nicole | Jan 7, 2012 | Using Overlays, Using Textures, Video
How to change the color of Black and White Overlays using Solid Color Adjustment Layers and Clipping masks in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. That sounds more complicated than it is! It’s actually really easy. There’s also another video that goes into a...
