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Your Feedback On The Challenge
A few glitches have come up with this month’s challenge that have made me change the challenge to be a random draw. Read more.
Before & After Rose Image With Filters and a Texture
See how a jpg image from a lower resolution compact digital camera is changed into a photo painting with Topaz Labs filters and a texture.
Before & After Using Photoshop Clipping Masks and Textures
Before and After tutorial using Photoshop clipping masks to customize textures to suit an image.
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.
Purple Prose Texture Challenge With Prizes
One of my most popular textures is Purple Prose and it’s Free! For this month’s Challenge, enter your image that uses Purple Prose. Voting for favorites starts August 19th. Free textures for the top two winners!
Before & After: Textured Muscari Photograph
If you have a lot of detail in your texture that you want to keep, you may need to do a bit of Layer Acrobatics in Photoshop to achieve the results you want. Get a peek at the layer panel for a detailed description of how this textured flower image was made.
A Classic Horse Portrait Using Textures
A Before & After example that uses textures to turn a quick snap of a horse into a classic equine portrait. Shows the Photoshop layers panel.
How RGB Color Spaces Can Affect Textures
Have you ever placed a texture into your photograph file and the colors of the texture changed dramatically? In fact, it might have turned rather garish. You may also have had Photoshop warn you that the color space was different and you weren’t sure what to do? This is due to a difference between the color space of the texture and the color space of your image.
Magnolia Blossom By Bob Jensen
Bob shares how he photographed this stunning magnolia macro photograph. Plus, his post-processing recipe using a Topaz Labs filter and 2 textures. See the before & after.
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