12/31/2014 - Winter Evening

The Daily Texture For 12/31/2014
Winter Evening

Today's Daily Texture features the glorious colors of a winter evening with the glow of the setting sun.  If I had a snow landscape, I'd have tried this texture on it -- but living in West Tennessee, we don't see a lot of snow. :(  So I chose to use the texture on one of my beautiful mourning doves I photographed last winter.  I've shown an image below with the layers panel to demonstrate how I got this result.  I first placed the texture as a layer above the original photo and set it to soft light at 100%.  This gave some nice glow to the bird, and it allowed the feathers to pick up the colors in the texture.  Then I placed the original texture as a new layer at full strength and masked out the bird, as well as masked the texture off some of the background branches.  After masking, I duplicated that layer and set it to multiply at 50%.  This gave some rich depth to the colors.  I then duplicated that layer, and set it to hard light at 30%, which put a stronger light glow on the bird.  Finally, I merged all the layers together.

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Click to enlarge to see the layers panel