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Add Excitement to Your Photos with Textures

By Diana Day  ·  Issue: V6N2 (March/April 2009)

Transform an image from boring to exciting by applying textures to your photos.

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9 Replies to Add Excitement to Your Photos with Textures:

  1. JoAnn Gabrich

    April 8, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    Thank you for giving examples on your web site in a PDF file and being able to download and print the instructions.

  2. Cathy Orkibi

    April 10, 2010 at 10:12 pm

    This is a great tutorial. Very thoroughly explained for the newcomers. I just used my eraser to erase where I didn’t want the texture without using the brush tool. Thank you. Cathy

  3. Ray Craft

    April 11, 2010 at 10:18 am

    Great article !! You have planted some seeds that will inspire me to be more creative.

  4. Sharon

    April 21, 2010 at 10:22 pm

    no comments…I learn better with my mouth shut

  5. Ken

    November 28, 2010 at 1:53 pm

    Nice example. My students loved it. Simple but effective.

  6. George

    March 21, 2011 at 12:27 pm

    Great Tut, just what I was looking for

  7. Robert

    August 11, 2011 at 1:18 pm

    This tut helped me figure out how to add a grungy background to the dingbat image I had made in another of your tuts. I even followed your suggestion and used my own texture (photo of a distressed slap of concrete) for the background. I’m still having trouble with the mask-does black hide or reveal the layer above. Because in this tut, black in the mask definitely concealed the texture from the image below the mask. But I thought it was supposed to be the other way around. Oh well, I’ll get it eventually.

    • George

      December 26, 2011 at 8:32 pm

      The black mask hides, and painting on it in white reveals. Usde a white make to reveal all, and paint on it in black to conceal.

  8. Daniel S

    August 31, 2011 at 1:01 pm

    Thanks for the instruction book, it makes it much easier to learn how to use and even create textures.
    Success and best wishes to you

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