The Daily Texture for 05/09/2015
Spring Garden Dreams
 Like this texture? Buy it here for only $2. Commercial Use OK. | Today's Daily Texture is another spring one, filled with beautiful spring greens and touches of other spring colors. I used this texture on the bluebird photo {left}, first as a background, and then as a layer on top. I placed the bird photo on top of the texture and masked away the background, blending things softly with the branches. After I was satisfied with the blending, I duplicated the texture layer and placed it on top, setting it to soft light at 50%. That finished out the photo art. I didn't stop there, however. I was inspired to continue on with this piece and turn it into a painted work of art. I've seen a lot of people who purchase the textures using them as backgrounds for their digital paintings, and I decided to do that with this work. Below is my finished painting, which started with the finished photo above. I took the merged image into my digital painting program and started playing with brushes and colors. I chose to make the painting a bit warmer in color overall, and I'm really pleased with how it turned out. Using the photo merged with the texture gave me a great starting point for this painting, so I can see why others are doing this -- because it works really well! :) |
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