i love texture

it's amazing

a few simple photos combined

can make a great project in photoshop

i took a photo of some queen anne lace

overlooking the bluffs near my house

plain and simple

this photo of a lamp base in nyc

i think i take more photos of texture, grunge ,billboards,

metal, stone, the street etc............

than anything else

i cropped the photo
made it black and white
i'm sure i will use this texture again
and again





some text, inverted

and some stitches

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i layered the queen anne lace ontop of the lamp base texture

used the "hard light" blending mode

i gave the photo some texture but it wasn't enough

so i added the text, it got lost , so i inverted it,

a little too harsh, so i use my eraser at 50% opacity

and it lighted some of the text

and for the finishing touch i added the stitches
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simple but effective

nothing fancy

just layers and blending modes

and a little eraser

i've been working with ps for 5 years now

the first few years i just played with

the enhancements and filters

but once i found "layers" and the "blending modes"

i was hooked!!!!

like anything the more you "play"

the more you learn!!

that

and a little help from my friends

lennie and marie

i've slowly been learning

"tips and tricks"

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someone asked me recently

"where do you get your ideas?"

well.....

they just happen

really

i promised myself a few years ago that

i would make it a routine to sit every day

for 15 minutes at the computer

and if you know me --that's a long time for me to sit!!!

but i did, everyday

not knowing what to do

i just open a photo and play

and the next thing you know

something is created

sometimes it's good and sometimes

well, lets just say i learn from my mistakes!

but mostly it just evolves!

so....... take some time to play!