by Leslie Nicole | Mar 24, 2011 | Featured Art, Your Work
I love this piece by Anna. She delicately uses textures to fulfill her artistic voice. Anna Explains How It Was Made In Paint Shop Pro, I first created an HDR version, using photos developed from one RAW image with different exposures. A little more tweaking,...
by Leslie Nicole | Mar 23, 2011 | Before & After
Often, all you need is a little kiss of texture. In this case, less is more. This is an Edge of Gold Dahlia from my garden photographed with vintage satin curtains as a backdrop. Original Image Although the image is already rich, the slight texture gives it more...
by Leslie Nicole | Mar 21, 2011 | News
Today is the first day of Spring. The growth and energy of Spring has also helped me to give birth to a new name for my textures. I was tentatively using Tableaux Textures, which I really liked as a name, but it didn’t pass the rule of thumb for naming an online...
by Leslie Nicole | Mar 9, 2011 | Books
I’ve been eagerly awaiting the release of Matt Kloskowski’s book, Layers: The Complete Guide to Photoshop’s Most Powerful Feature (2nd Edition)*. I plowed through the entire book in one day. I’ve followed Matt Kloskowski over the past few...
by Leslie Nicole | Dec 4, 2010 | Freebies, Using Textures
Tutorial Using Adobe Photoshop There are many ways you can change your textures to suit to your own style of photography or even for a specific image. Some texture makers vignette all of their textures. Vignetting can be useful when you want to show more texture on...
by Leslie Nicole | Nov 12, 2010 | Inspiration
I was working on some painterly textures yesterday and started thinking about paintings. As photo artists, we are often—as R Christopher Vest said in a previous post—Neo-Pictorialists. What better place to take our inspiration from than the master painters? This may...
by Leslie Nicole | Nov 5, 2010 | Featured Artists
Antonio Díaz is a photographer in Seville, Spain. His website says he was born to photography in 2006. He came to photography from painting, at which he is also self-taught. I discovered Antonio Díaz on Photo.net. He is one of my favorite still life photographers....
by Leslie Nicole | Nov 2, 2010 | Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter Today, I’m going to give an overview of how I created my Weimaraner Puppy “Sketch.” For this tutorial, I will assume that you already have a working knowledge of Photoshop and how to use layers and layer masks and...
by Leslie Nicole | Oct 29, 2010 | Featured Artists
Featured Artist This week I’m featuring the stunning painted photographs of R Christopher Vest, a photographer and illustrator from Colorado. When I stumbled upon his work on Imagekind, I knew immediately that I wanted to share this find with you. I was...
by Leslie Nicole | Oct 28, 2010 | Before & After, Freebies, Using Textures
Before & After using Adobe Photoshop and Textures I quite liked these coleus leaves tucked around this hydrangea. The original is photographed against a black background. Although it looks very rich and lovely in its own right, I wanted a version that was more...
