Here is an alternate design from the previous post, this time using textures with the masks.

Previous Post Design

Using Masks With Textures

In the quick design below, I’ve used 3 masks. One for the large background textured block, one for the textured block behind the photo, and one for the photo. Whereas in the previous design I used the masks as blended, toned, overlays— this time I used them with textures.

As I was playing around with an alternate design from the previous post, I tried out the overlay from the Geometrie 1912 brushes and immediately thought of a Steam Punk inspired design. As I don’t have any steam punk images, I purchased the usage (for this demo) of this dashing steam punk model from iStock Photo by artist contributor: fmbackX.

The Layers

Here’s a peek at the layers for this design. Descriptions are from the bottom up. (bullet #1 is the bottom layer.)

1. Background Texture: Bibliotheque from Les Textures 1 collection.
2. The large, textured background block mask is from the Brayered Blocks collection. Blend Mode: normal, Opacity: 100%.
3. Texture clipped to the background mask: Anjou from Les Textures 1 collection. Blend Mode: normal, Opacity: 100%.
4. Vintage French Geometry Overlay: Geometrie 1912 Photoshop brushes (overlay bonus) Blend Mode: Multiply, Opacity: 100%.
5. Solid Color Adjustment Layer applied as a clipping mask to change the overlay color. (See this tut for changing overlay colors with clipping masks.)
6. Embellished Brayer Block Mask: free (for a limited time) photo mask . Blend Mode: normal, Opacity: 100%.
7. Texture clipped to the mask behind the photo: Bibliotheque from Les Textures 1 collection. Blend Mode: normal, Opacity: 100%.
8. Levels adjustment layer applied as a clipping mask to lighten the texture.
9. Hue/Saturation adjustment layer for overall desaturation of the background layers.
10. Levels adjustment layer for overall lightening of the background layers.
11. Photo mask from the Brayered Blocks collection for the photograph. I resized the mask to be narrower. I also used a dry brush stroke in the layer mask to change the mask slightly in the left side.
12. Photo: steam punk model from iStock Photo by artist contributor: fmbackX.

Note: I updated this design with more graphics from the 1912 French Geometrie collection.

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Leslie Nicole

American Photographer and Designer living in France with my French husband, 2 Weimaraners and Cat Rescues. Camera, Mac, studio, garden.