My Husband gave me mums on Mother's Day. hardi-har-har.
I turned them into this ...
Fun! I started out with a few actions and some adjustment layers and then I threw a few textures on there, most notably 'market square' from the talented Kim Klassen. Pretty, isn't it? Check out her photo stream ... seriously beautiful. And her textures are for sale now! Go Kim!
And now I'm late posting this because I messed around for over an hour trying to get a mouseover code to work for the before and after.
I stand defeated.
For now, anyways.
So yeah, no fancy mouseover lookit me code happening here. Here's the before ...
I love playing around with textures. The only drawback is that I can quite lose track of time messing around trying to get things looking just the way I want them. Before you know it, I have fifteen layers going on in photoshop and I'm ready to hit delete and start over because I've thoroughly confused myself. heh.
I suppose there are worse ways to spend my time ;)
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this is lovely--both the before and after. I know what you mean about textures... although I only have a few. I really can overdo it. so fund though! Glad you had a happy Mother's Day.
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It's addicting!!! :)
I know how PS actions/textures would take quite a bit of time. For that reason, I try to keep my action set to a minimal.
I like both these - the old-fashioned one is simple with wonderful details and the "textured" one reminds me of 'soft/fade' action from PW blog (which is free by-the-way).
.-= Sasi S´s last blog ..Photo 365: Day 133 – Karl Rosenfield Peony =-.
PW's action sets rock. On this, it's actually the texture work giving it the soft fade :)
I do the same thing in Lightroom. Get so carried away with presets that before I know it I've been at the computer for four hours.
Love the texture and soft feel on this.
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Thanks girl! I hear ya ... I think I need to set myself a timer or something. LOL ...
You KNOW how I love textures & actions, LOL. Beautiful shot, it would look great in Donna's sunroom. ;-)
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HA! omg I still haven't sent her the other one!!! Totally forgot.