Applying Textures: Video Tutorial

I thought it would be helpful if I put together a quick video on how to apply textures to your photography since I have been giving away some textures.  This is how *I* do it so it doesn't mean there aren't other ways to do it also.  I tend to be a little heavy handed with textures so you may find you like your results better if you lower the opacity of your textures.   If you are using an RSS reader and don't see the video file below you can click here to see it on YouTube.  Sorry for the fuzzy images (the YouTube conversion left it a little out of focus but I think you can get the idea!).  As you watch, keep in mind: you do not have to flatten your image file before applying the texture I I think it is easier to manage.  Also, when I go back and add the texture back in on the layer mask I changed my paint color to white to paint it back in on the layer mask (sorry, I didn't explain what I did there).

ETA: Yippee!  It seems like the YouTube issue has been resolved!  Enjoy the video.

 

Comments

[maya]

Where'd it go? I didn't get a chance to see it yet! :(

[Barb]

Thanks for sharing that! I only recently attempted adding textures after following a tute on PIFPhoto, and your video wasn't too different. I am indebted to photographers like you and those at PIFP for sharing your expertise. :D

[maya]

Yay! That DID help me out. I didn't know how to "unerase" the texture, though I knew there had to be a way.

Thanks so much for taking the time to make this tutorial.

[Eleni]

Awesome tutorial. Thanks for explaining AND giving away textures.
Can you make a tutorial or explain backlit photos? I want to take a photo of a person in front of a window and I meter off of their face and most of the time the camera does not want to take the photo. any ideas?
Thanks so much, Eleni

[TC]

Is there volumn with this?

[Laurie]

Thanks so much for this tutorial. Just a quick question....hope your able to answer...whats the diff between flatten and merge ? Why would you do one over the other. In particular I want to be able to print a high quality photo out of my photoshop enhanced image so what is better to do flatten or merge and then save to jpeg ?

Thanls so much for your BLOG and the tutorials, free stuff and all your advice !!! Love it.

[Laurie L]

Oh and also will this work with PS Elements 6 ? And lastly after you are finished completely what do you do with the picture to save it ? Newbie here...LOL...keeping with my above comment of flatten v.s. merging. Thanks so very much !

[Jessica]

TC - Yes, you should hear sound with the tutorial. The volume control is the button next to the YouTube button at the very bottom of the video.

Laurie, I think that the difference between flatten and merge is that flatten merges all the layers where as with merge you can choose to merge just some of the layer. For example, if I just not layers I can flatten. If I want all of my changes saved to one layer but keep the unchanged background image I would merge all of the other layers. That way I can easily see the straight out of the camera image vs the retouched version. I do flatten when I crop and save to JPEG because it is faster than cropping the layered image. I haven't used Photoshop Elements but I believe that you DON'T have layer masks so you'll have to erase the texture where you don't want it to show. I always save the layered PSD AND I flatten and crop to 5x7 for proofing. However, when I archive I only archive the original RAW files and the flattened PSD files (without the cropping). I hope that helps.

[Miz Booshay]

Thank you so much for this great tutorial!!!

[Judi]

Thanks so much for sharing. It's greatly appreciated!!!!