Thank you Trent for this tutorial .. I often use textures in my art creation and have quite a collection of textures but haven't used a brush to add textures - I believe I will be doing so in the future. One thing I have found that others might find useful is: when applying a texture with colour (and I ofter use Soft light or Overlay blend mode when doing so), if I want to remove some of the texture from my subject a simple mask also will remove the colour effect of the texture, so what I do is add a live gaussian blur filter to the texture (set so as to lose the texture - but keep the colour) and then use the gaussian blur filter's built in mask to apply to the parts of my image that I wish the texture to be removed or lessened.
So the texture image should be always on top of our photo for the blend mode? What happens if the photo is on top and we set blend mode to it? Will we get the same result? (I'm asking before checking it by myself😅)
Hi Joan, good question! The answer is that it depends on the blend modes. For some of them, it doesn't matter which layer is on top, whereas for others it does. So I recommend experimenting with it in your design to see which looks best.
Another way to get textures: get your mobile and shoot walls, pavements, grass, water, rusty surfaces, carpets, tree barks and whatever else you can. Just make sure the phone camera is parallel to the surace you are taking the pic. No RAW file is necessary, just the best quality jpg.
Another great video. Thank you!
Thanks, glad it was helpful!
Thank you Trent for this tutorial .. I often use textures in my art creation and have quite a collection of textures but haven't used a brush to add textures - I believe I will be doing so in the future. One thing I have found that others might find useful is: when applying a texture with colour (and I ofter use Soft light or Overlay blend mode when doing so), if I want to remove some of the texture from my subject a simple mask also will remove the colour effect of the texture, so what I do is add a live gaussian blur filter to the texture (set so as to lose the texture - but keep the colour) and then use the gaussian blur filter's built in mask to apply to the parts of my image that I wish the texture to be removed or lessened.
Hi Sharon, thanks for sharing that awesome idea! There are so many ways to use textures and I may make additional videos about it :)
Thanks Trent! Outstanding tips as usual. You have really upped my photography creativity. Love your videos!
Hi Lloyd, glad to hear that!
Thanks
Excellent as usual
Very nice Trent! Thanks!
Cool texture quick tutorial! Thank you.
Very nice Trent
So the texture image should be always on top of our photo for the blend mode? What happens if the photo is on top and we set blend mode to it? Will we get the same result? (I'm asking before checking it by myself😅)
Hi Joan, good question! The answer is that it depends on the blend modes. For some of them, it doesn't matter which layer is on top, whereas for others it does. So I recommend experimenting with it in your design to see which looks best.
Another way to get textures: get your mobile and shoot walls, pavements, grass, water, rusty surfaces, carpets, tree barks and whatever else you can. Just make sure the phone camera is parallel to the surace you are taking the pic. No RAW file is necessary, just the best quality jpg.
Hi Javier, awesome suggestion! When it comes to finding textures, the only limit is one's imagination.