Adding Textures

Hi everyone, I’m Pin. Welcome to my first blog!

I bought an SLR five months ago but haven’t been using it until I started my 365 (which was a month ago). All of my shots were straight out from the camera at first, and then I learned about photoshop. The first thing I was fascinated about was adding textures. It took me days to learn how to manipulate one, which was really hard specially that I had no one to ask about the “this and that” of it.

What precipitated me to create a blog was that few of my flickr friends asked me about how I added textures to some of my posts. Then I remembered myself when I first had my photoshop installed, I wanted to do things but just couldn't because I didn't know how to do it. So I'd be very very happy to help the ones out there, who maybe cursing their computers at this very moment ~_~

I must remind you that this is for the newbie’s- very basic, and i don’t know much about technical terms, so if you spot corrections, please let me know ~_~

This was one of my first flickr posts wherein I dared to use textures.

Here we go.

First, I did jumping shots. Here are some of the outtakes.

Whoaaa, my legs were that strong!!

karate queen, i did punch the wall, and i was hurt.

Remote on my left hand

With the editing, I googled a stock photo (http://www.aviary.com/artists/Chelaine/creations/mistymarburg) for the background.

Then cut myself off from one of the jumping shots and pasted it on the background photo.

Mix and match the Color Balance of both the background and subject. I love manipulating towards cyan.
You may also add a Raster Layer.

When you’re satisfied with the color, then comes the texture.
I got this one from deviantart.com.

Adjust the Blending Mode and Opacity.

And tada, were done!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pinpasol/4897318075/in/photostream/