Give that Image some Texture!

This is so cool. Texturing is a lot of fun and a great way to make your images pop and add more interest. I love doing this sort of thing with Senior’s and or maybe even engagements. It gives the images a grungy textured appearance.

To start with, I go out and shoot textures that catch my eye. The one I’ll use for this entry was actually a rusty side of my Dad’s Box blade that he pulls behind his tractor. I photographed one side of it and then pulled that photograph into Photoshop and retouched it. This is what I was left with:



Jenny works for me as a production associate in my studio and was kind enough to let me photograph her. Here’s the original image of her:



I took one of the images we did and the texture I had made before and applied the texture to her image and wound up with something like this:



I first opened her image up in Photoshop. Once it was opened, I opened the image of the texture and the added it as a layer to Jenny’s picture by dragging the image over the top of hers. Once it was on top of her image in Photoshop, I changed the opacity of the Box Blade image to 30 percent and changed the mode to “Hard Light”. The different modes produce different effects, some of which are really cool. Here’s the Photoshop file in case you’d like to play around with it:

Click Here to Download a small PSD of this file.

It’s fun to just go out and shoot sidewalks, bricks, glass, anything that catches your eye and then superimpose it over your images. It’s a great tool to tell your story the way you want it to be. I think it’s kind of artsy and I think it’s pretty cool at times.

I hope you enjoy the idea and go out there and make it your own!