Jai's Jewels
  • Home
  • The Daily Texture

02/24/2015 - Blooming Autumn

2/24/2015

0 Comments

 

The Daily Texture for 02/24/2015
Blooming Autumn

Blooming Autumn Texture
For Today's Daily Texture, I decided to play with a landscape photo and see how this texture would transform a scene.  The original, drab, gray photo of this old barn was taken just as winter was setting in here in Tennessee.  I could have easily worked this photo into a winter scene {and I may still do that!}, but today I wanted to see how this texture could be applied to change things up.  I layered the texture on first as a multiply layer and set it to 70%.  Which looked pretty cool, but I wanted to have more brightness to indicate a sunset.  So I layered the texture on top again, and set it to overlay at 70%, which brightened things up more.  Then I decided to add some flying birds.  I like adding birds to these scenes, as it gives a sense of movement, like something is happening in the scene.  At this time of day, the birds would be very active, as they find their last bits of food and head into the deserted barn to roost for the night.  I've created a PNG file of silhouettes of flying birds {which is a free file for you to download...it's at the bottom of this post!}.  I copied and pasted the PNG file on top of my completed image as a new layer, and I resized it to be smaller.  I placed the birds in between the barn and the trees and set their layer opacity to 80% so they wouldn't be such a harsh black.  Then I selected the bottom row of flying birds from that layer and cut them out.  I pasted those cut out birds onto a new layer and placed them behind the open barn doorway, and I set their opacity a bit lower...I think it was about 60%.  This made that layer of birds appear to be more in the hazy background...as if they were further away, which they would be if they were behind the barn.
Like this texture?  Buy it here for only $2.  Commercial Use OK.
Picture
The Old Barn On A Fall Evening
Click the download link below to get the PNG file of flying birds!
flyingbirds-png2.png
File Size: 39 kb
File Type: png
Download File

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.


    NEW:  Visit the new website DailyTexture.Com  where you'll find Daily Texture Collections and it's also the new home for future individual daily textures.
    Click here to return to the

    Main Blog Page


    Follow 
    The Daily Texture on Facebook...
    Click the
    button!
    Be sure to share your finished creations with us on our Facebook page too!
    NEW! You're invited to join the Artistry Beyond the Camera Group on Facebook, where you can share your photo art made with the Daily Textures!  

    NEW!  Video Demonstrations On YouTube showing how I work with The Daily Textures.  Click here to view the channel.

    Search the blog:

    Recommended Tutorials on You Tube

    I have found a number of great video tutorials over the years on working with masking, layers and working with textures in photography.  These are some of the ones I've watched which I recommend:

    • Blend Modes & Masking in Paint Shop Pro

    • Photoshop Tutorial: Layers and Layer Masks for Beginners


    • Remask for Beginners by Topaz Labs

    • Remask 4 Tutorial by Topaz Labs

    •  Layer Masking in Photoshop With Textures

    • A Breakdown of Blending Modes | Photoshop Tutorial by Aaron Nace

    •Jai's Tips in This Blog
    •Quick Texture Masking Tutorial For Photoshop Users


    Categories

    All

    Archives

    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014

    RSS Feed

Signed Art Prints, Gifts, and Home Decor Can Be Purchased Here:
http://www.JaiArt.Com