Sharing my Stash With You
For those of you who like to work with textures, I have decided to share a lot of my photos that I use in my composites. Not all of them, mind you!
I worked hard to create some of them, so I will hold on to them jealously for a little while longer.
In any case, there are a little more than 50 of them in a special album of my Flickr account, under Creative Commons licence. Most are big images with the larger side at over 3000px.
I you use them, I would appreciate if you could give me proper credit and a link back to my Flickr home page as mentioned in the description of each image. Click on the image below to go to my texture album.
Please note that only the images from that album are stock resources and free for the taking. All other albums are protected by copyright .
Enjoy!
Featured in TUTORIALS – Help and Advice Forums on May 7, 2009
Joanne Bradley
That is so cool! And generous of you! I don’t know the first thing about using these but I will keep them in mind and hopefully learn to use my Photoshop elements one of these days…
Johanne Brunet replied
My pleasure Joanne! There’s no secret to this, you only need to practise.
Only six months ago, I had no idea of how it was done, and I learned by practising on various tutorials, following step by step to understand the different techniques used. Eventually I was able to use these techniques in other ways, and became bolder in my experimenting. It’s really very addictive! :-)
Here are a few tutorials that I used:
Basic:
Photoshop Tutorial: How to Apply Textures to Photos
Aged / worn photo in Photoshop
Vignetting for Digital Photos in Photoshop
This video is a good way to learn how to select elements from an image using channels and how to work with masks:
Combining images / Composite Photoshop Tutorial Video
Intermediate:
How to Turn a Portrait Into a Statue
Have fun!
Linda Bianic
I dont know that I will ever use them,,,, dotn know yet anyways,,, but thanks for your generosity,,,,,i would however , love to learn from you how to make my own…..
Johanne Brunet replied
You’re welcome Linda! Should you ever want to try, the best way is to experiment with step-by-step tutorials. Please refer to my reply to Joanne above for some great links to begin with. That’s how I started learning myself! :-)
Joanne Bradley
Thank you so much for all the links Johanne! :-) I will definitely look into that!!!!
Colleen Milburn
How wonderful – thank you, my friend!! I’m already in love with the bottom 4 red ones and I can only see the thumbnail… lol
Johanne Brunet replied
Fake blood, that’s what they are! Mixed red poster paint with a bit of water, added corn syrup for texture and a few drops of beef stock to darken the colour a bit, and voilà!
When my sons came home from school, they were horrified, afraid that I had lost my mind and butchered the dog or that I had cut off a finger while fixing supper! LOL!
Vanessa Anderberg
Wow…you are very kind…to do this for everyone. The video links especially. Thanks so much:)
Johanne Brunet replied
My pleasure Vanessa! They are only textures, not works of art and it doesn’t take anything away from me, so I’m happy if it can help someone else…
Squealia
Thanks Hun :O)
Johanne Brunet replied
You’re very welcome, Celia! :
) I hope that you will find some of them useful. :)Ursula Rodgers
That’s so generous of you Jo!! You really are a fabulous teacher too my friend…and wonderful for sharing your resources :)
Johanne Brunet replied
You’re welcome Ursula! Really I don’t mind at all, it’s a pleasure if it can help someone else. Thank you so much for your kind comment! :-)
Colleen Milburn
Oh, cool, thanks Johanne – I’ll have to remember that fake blood recipe!! :))
Colleen Milburn
P.S. Your poor sons!!!! hehe
monocotylidono
You’re a star! :-) Thanks for the collection and for the tutorials.
Johanne Brunet replied
You’re welcome George! :-)
Melissa Gurdus 5 days ago
Very generous of you to share. I have taken some texture photos of my own, but do not know the next step. Are there tutorials for this?
Johanne Brunet replied 5 days ago
If you’re looking on tutorials on how to use them in a composite, here are a few interesting links:
How to apply textures to photos
Aged / worn photo in Photoshop with textures
Combining Images/Composite Photoshop Tutorial
http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photo-effects-tutorials/how-to-apply-textures-to-uneven-surfaces/
Hope this helps, and happy creation! :-)