Between exercise class and heading off to another busy day away from home, I thought I'd tried another of Shimelle's prompts. This one was to try using textures with your photos. I've played around with textures a few times, and see lots of examples on blogs that I like a lot. Shimelle's directions gave me some new ways to play with them. Before today, I usually just played with opacity and levels to get the look I wanted. Today I played around with the blending modes, and it certainly gives one a lot of options! I'm not totally happy with any of these but would like to hear your thoughts about improving them.
Here's the first image I played with from our trip to Vermont a week ago.
Here's the first adaptation. I used a texture called "branded" that I downloaded a while ago. Sadly I have no information on where I got it or who created it. I decreased the opacity to 61% and then ran the Pioneer Woman Lovely and Etheral action on it.
The next one uses Kim Klassen's Simple Things texture at 51% opacity.
Lastly, I played with the photo I took of the rope at Shelbourne Museum.
For this I used a texture called Brown Paper with the opacity at 82%.
Hope to be back with some layouts, but it probably won't be until tomorrow since our book group meets tonight at our house. I have the photos chosen, just need to get them on the paper!
