The Daily Texture for 12/26/2014
Sunrise Over the Marsh
If you think this Daily Texture has a color scheme similar to the old masters paintings, you're right. The color palette for this texture came from a painting from 1901. It was a bit more green, but I added some cool blue tone and brightened it up a bit. Because it has somewhat of a horizon line with a sun streak in the center, it's the perfect texture for turning a bland, gray landscape into a work of fine art!
My original photo is shown on the left below. I loved this old blue barn we were passing by on a country ride the other day. I shot the photo from the window as we drove by, and as you can see my horizon line was crooked and it's just a bland photo {except for the barn!} because of the ugly gray day. After straightening the horizon line, I added this texture. The "sun" spot didn't quite hit the barn as it should though, so I mirror imaged the barn layer. {TIP: If something doesn't look quite right, mirror image your image, or even mirror image and/or flip the texture layer. Sometimes that's all it takes to go from "no that's not working" to spectacular results!} After positioning the sun spot in the texture over the barn, I added one layer as a multiply layer to give the image depth, and added the texture on top again as an overlay layer to brighten things up. I masked portions of each texture layer off where the texture was too harsh and finally ended up with something I like. Now my bland, gray photo has the feel of a painterly work of art.
My original photo is shown on the left below. I loved this old blue barn we were passing by on a country ride the other day. I shot the photo from the window as we drove by, and as you can see my horizon line was crooked and it's just a bland photo {except for the barn!} because of the ugly gray day. After straightening the horizon line, I added this texture. The "sun" spot didn't quite hit the barn as it should though, so I mirror imaged the barn layer. {TIP: If something doesn't look quite right, mirror image your image, or even mirror image and/or flip the texture layer. Sometimes that's all it takes to go from "no that's not working" to spectacular results!} After positioning the sun spot in the texture over the barn, I added one layer as a multiply layer to give the image depth, and added the texture on top again as an overlay layer to brighten things up. I masked portions of each texture layer off where the texture was too harsh and finally ended up with something I like. Now my bland, gray photo has the feel of a painterly work of art.
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