The Daily Texture for 02/08/2015
Tilda's Blue
 Like this texture? Buy it here for only $2. Commercial Use OK. | Today's Daily Texture is named after my pet Mockingbird, Tilda. She looks exceptionally good in blue. :) This is an example of where using a texture can help to hide a critical photo error. Well, it might not be critical to some, but to me it is. Tilda's tail is cut off by the bottom of the frame. In other words, I didn't compose my photo correctly to be able to get all of her tail in. But the quality of the photo is excellent, and I really wanted to use it. I masked the texture off of Tilda and the branch, and then brought some of it back over the branch at the edges, and around the bottom of her tail, so now it appears as if the tail fades away -- rather than just cut off by the straight line of the bottom of the frame. {Tilda would NOT be happy if her tail was cut off, trust me!} After getting the texture masked like I wanted it, I then duplicated it and set it to soft light at 100%. This gave the image more of a turquoise color, which I really love. After merging, I still realized something was off. Tilda was in the sun in her photo, and her feathers had a golden glow. To me, that didn't make sense with the blue texture. So I placed the original texture {not the masked texture...the actual WHOLE texture} over the top again, and set it to soft light at 100%. This "cooled" down Tilda's warm coloring, and gave her white feathers some of the blue tones to match the texture. TIP: Pay attention to your color tones when using textures. Your subject will pick up the colors around it from your original photo -- you want to make sure those tones make sense with your texture choice, or you may have to alter them by changing the tones on your original photo, or using a texture layer set to soft light or overlay, which will often adjust the tones in your original photo for you. |
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