Something different? Post your working with textures shots here.

[mythlady]

Steve, I like what you did -- that's very creative.

Raylee, I'd like to see the original, but sometimes the texture doesn't have to be obvious -- you can use it very subtly to bring out details in the picture. But go ahead and be bold too!

[Camellia]

Steve, I like what you did -- that's very creative.

Raylee, I'd like to see the original, but sometimes the texture doesn't have to be obvious -- you can use it very subtly to bring out details in the picture. But go ahead and be bold too!

Hi Elise

This is the version without the texture:

[Camellia]

I've tried another photo with a texture. I used soft light for the layer and I quite like the effect. It may be too subtle for some - but who knows? I'm having fun learning! Let me know what you think please.

[Clactonian]

Not too subtle for me Raylee, although I'm not sure about the black frame. Maybe a vignette might look better, but then I would say that as I tend to over use them.

[Hansm]

Here my first experiment with using textures.
However I used it just for the background of the image.
Just a picture of a small piece of plastered wall. Changed colours and put some Gaussian blur over it.

But this topic gave me already a lot of inspiration.
Thanks for that!

[Dave Humphries]

I've tried another photo with a texture. I used soft light for the layer and I quite like the effect. It may be too subtle for some - but who knows? I'm having fun learning! Let me know what you think please.

You can almost touch it

Nice,

[Antonio Correia]

I've tried another photo with a texture. I used soft light for the layer and I quite like the effect. It may be too subtle for some - but who knows? I'm having fun learning! Let me know what you think please.

Super
Very nice. It is so subtle that I can hardly see it. It looks like the texture "belongs" to the flower itself.
Good work.
You also have something interesting: the little line around the image and your signature in the same color.

[Antonio Correia]

Using this texture on this image with Hue blending mode 100% and some adjustments like contrast, brightness and exposure. I like dark images.

Yesterday we went for a walk in the fields and we saw this grave with the cross. We suppose that the dog (Alcatifa) was from some family with children and they came here to berry him. We don't know...
I have been there today expressly for this shot. I used a flash gelled with orange. Remotely triggered while some small drops of water were falling on me and on the equipment. I had to do it before the rains would destroy the scene.
Oh and by the way: I like this. Really. But in fact there is nothing special about it, after all...

[Wirefox]

I used one of my polyhead portraits, a smoke texture and a old paper texture for these. Trying to keep it simple. It is quite hard finding the right subjects for this technique.

Raylee, I love the rose, excellent choice of subject.

Antonio, I like the lighting on the cross, it gives an ethereal feeling to the scene. The texture is very subtle on this one and it works.

LIES


DARK THOUGHTS

[Antonio Correia]

I used one of my polyhead portraits, a smoke texture and a old paper texture for these. Trying to keep it simple. It is quite hard finding the right subjects for this technique. Raylee, I love the rose, excellent choice of subject. Antonio, I like the lighting on the cross, it gives an ethereal feeling to the scene. The texture is very subtle on this one and it works.
LIES and DARK THOUGHT

Steve. great work. That old paper texture is great and hard to find. Well, is it ? Never mind.

Let me suggest you however one thing:
Make, like I have done, a set of 3 images with the same "treatment" into one canvas or present them separately.
I have not yet tried to melt more than two layers. Time will come.
I also have told somewhere than these images require calm, thinking and they don't pop up from our minds just like that, in bulk.
To make a set of images is a patient process. I defy you to do so.
I am writing too direct am I not ? Sorry Steve. No offense of course.

[Camellia]

I used one of my polyhead portraits, a smoke texture and a old paper texture for these. Trying to keep it simple. It is quite hard finding the right subjects for this technique.

Raylee, I love the rose, excellent choice of subject.

Antonio, I like the lighting on the cross, it gives an ethereal feeling to the scene. The texture is very subtle on this one and it works.

LIES


DARK THOUGHTS

These are great Steve. It's amazing how an object uninteresting in itself can be turned into something really moody and thought-provoking.

[Wirefox]

To make a set of images is a patient process. I defy you to do so.
I am writing too direct am I not ? Sorry Steve. No offense of course.

Not at all Antonio. I am always attentive to your posts. I like the concept of a set of separate images on one canvas. I also agree that is it difficult to find images that are either complimentary or totally at odds with each other. I think either has potential. What I have in my mind at the moment is separate images but somehow connected. Maybe smoke swirling though each component image to provide a surreal physical connection. I tried this with the image below if you remember where the audio cord makes he physical connection between the two frames.

These are great Steve. It's amazing how an object uninteresting in itself can be turned into something really moody and thought-provoking.

Thanks Raylee. I think that has to be the holy grail of our trade. At the moment the simpler the better for me. I feel less and less inspired by the complex image. Simplicity is what grabs attention, your rose, Donald's misty 'Z' landcape. Simplicity allows the mind to hang detail on the bones of the image. This working of the mind allows us to become stimulated and provides the buzz. If everything is placed before us all our minds have to do is recoginse the components and that does not work the brain enough to give the buzz.

[Antonio Correia]

Could I suggest Elise all the images composed this way to be posted here ?

Do you agree Elise or you rather start a brand new thread only for this, kind of nSCP's SCP's or the Tree thread or ...

[Antonio Correia]

......

I saw this image the other day. I couldn't do it because of the link between the two canvas. OK. But it is not important. That is something one can learn and try until we got the hang of it.
I think it is an interesting concept with much potential.
Something I can try some day.
Last Saturday I had a coffee with an imageologist (doctors who make Xrays and scann us inside ). I went to shool with him and I asked if he could get me a collection of images for me to work on. A long term project.
I also know an orthopedist (also from school time) with whom I want to do something similar.
I need the time to drop him a line about this.

Thank you Steve

[mythlady]

Well, I'm the newbie around here -- if you think it would be okay to start a thread to post pictures with textures in the "Photo Commentary" section, great, but I have to say that that's where I posted it in the first place and it was moved here. Maybe because it's more about technique than subject matter?

[Camellia]

I've been having some fun.

Pinned

[Antonio Correia]

Well, I'm the newbie around here -- if you think it would be okay to start a thread to post pictures with textures in the "Photo Commentary" section, great, but I have to say that that's where I posted it in the first place and it was moved here. Maybe because it's more about technique than subject matter?

Excuse Elise this is not the point, is it ?
Come on, start a brand new thread with some quick rules like I did but keep in this one a link to it in the last post.
Ask the moderator to close this thread.
Done. It will be a success. Well... I hope.

[carregwen]

Excuse Elise this is not the point, is it ?
Come on, start a brand new thread with some quick rules like I did but keep in this one a link to it in the last post.
Ask the moderator to close this thread.
Done. It will be a success. Well... I hope.

I can move it back to photo commentary if Elise wants. I moved it originally as it seemed to be more of a discussion of technique. There is no need to close this one and start another. Would you like it moved back, Elise? I can change the title too to offer postings like the other threads that Antonio mentions.

[Antonio Correia]

I can move it back to photo commentary if Elise wants. I moved it originally as it seemed to be more of a discussion of technique. There is no need to close this one and start another. Would you like it moved back, Elise? I can change the title too to offer postings like the other threads that Antonio mentions.

See Elise
Nice people here !!! Rob is a nice guy. As much as I am.

[mythlady]

I didn't think it was an issue of someone not being nice, rather, as Rob said, that the discussion was going to be more technical than simple commenting on the success of the photos involved. Would it be fine for there to be a "show-off" thread in the other section, but then more nuts-and-bolts discussion here, maybe?