Call it artistic. Call it experimental. To me, it looks cool. Textured images help isolate the subjects by adding a mask around areas of less importance.
Fine Art Textures
Essentially, you are placing an image on top of your picture and changing the layer properties until you see something you like.
Use grunge textures to mask out any distractions in the background. The above image was taken in the kitchen of a venue.
The clear focus for this image was the bride’s face. Afterwards, your attention should gradually fade to the rest of her body, bouquet, dress, etc.
Check below for free grunge textures to download. However, to support the bandwidth costs, I encourage you to look into our entire grunge texture collection because all of these images are super high resolution. Most images were taken by Canon 40D (I think 12MP).
Another Sample of Grunge Texture
Here is another picture of a bride I shot and added a texture to it. I wanted to give it a rustic feel since the image was taken at a vineyard.
Free High Resolution Textures
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All Textures – $50
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Video Tutorial On How To Use Fine Art Textures
Sincerely,
Lawrence Chan
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Got your ebook months ago and now finally get a minute to say THANKS! I redid my COLLECTIONS and managed to book 2 weddings at my highest/ bestest collection! So, thank you : )) Looking to book more in the coming year!
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great tutorial again…thanks, laughing at the use of another food based analogy to describe the layering :)
Thanks for the great tutorial!
Thanks for the great tutorial!
looks good
looks good
Thanks for the free textures, I’m going to have a play with them and I might come back and get some of the paid ones too.
Thanks for the free textures, I’m going to have a play with them and I might come back and get some of the paid ones too.
I am using one of the textures. I am excited about the results. You can see it here:
Thanks for the help and the textures!!!!
I may come back and get the premium ones…!!!!
Otto
I am using one of the textures. I am excited about the results. You can see it here:
Thanks for the help and the textures!!!!
I may come back and get the premium ones…!!!!
Otto
Will the quality of these layers hold true on larger photos & pritns?
I love them, but do lots of large prints…are they good for that?
Will the quality of these layers hold true on larger photos & pritns?
I love them, but do lots of large prints…are they good for that?
Really good !!!!
Really good !!!!
Thank you SO much for sharing! I’d been playing with textures for a little while, now, but have never been able to get it “just right”. Your tutorial video has taught me exactly what I was doing right, & more importantly, what I was doing WRONG! Thank you, again!! Oh, thanks for the “free” textures, too!
Thank you SO much for sharing! I’d been playing with textures for a little while, now, but have never been able to get it “just right”. Your tutorial video has taught me exactly what I was doing right, & more importantly, what I was doing WRONG! Thank you, again!! Oh, thanks for the “free” textures, too!
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Great tutorial! Thanks!
Great tutorial! Thanks!
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Thanks for the free textures, cool stuff. Great video ;-) I would suggest using layer masks and not the eraser so… keep the great work! PS if you pay too much for the textures storage..just use flickr…
Thanks for the free textures, cool stuff. Great video ;-) I would suggest using layer masks and not the eraser so… keep the great work! PS if you pay too much for the textures storage..just use flickr…
Love the textures..great work! I’m hoping to use this in a drawing I’m doing. Hope to be back for the payed experience in the future too. Cool :)
Great tutorial. Your additional texture resources are excellent. Thanks for sharing.
Really helpful this tutorial. thank you!!!!
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Great texture compilation thanks for the tutorial as well.