I've always wanted to try to add a texture to a photo in Photoshop Elements. After I tucked the kids in bed tonight, I gave it a try. I took the picture below ...
...and placed the texture (below) on top. I lowered the opacity of the layer so the boys would show through. Then I lowered the amount of blue in the clothes so they would look a little more rustic. I burned around the edges to give it more depth. I also removed almost all of the texture from the boys' faces.
I can see the flaws, but with more practice I hope to get this right one day. I'm havin' fun in the meantime!
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Big Kahuna and I have known each other since we were kids and have been married for almost 15 years. We are passionate about our family, travel and serving God. We love helping people and bringing them hope. We laugh ourselves to tears watching classic episodes of Saturday Night Live and The Office. Summer is our favorite season, and we live for warm evenings playing with the kids on the beach.
Big Surf is 14 years old. He's a voracious reader, focused, and spends hours building things. He is our resident techie and is also learning to play the violin. He loves to spend his free time playing baseball, flag football, or out on the trails by the house building his clubhouse.
Goofy Foot is ten years old. He devours his free reading books like there is no tomorrow. He is also the family comedian. If you see him, ask him to tell you a joke! He is tender-hearted, social and compliant. When he is not outside riding his bike, you'll find him drawing or writing a funny book.
Beach Bunny is three years old. She is our sunshine! She joined our family through the unbelievable gift of adoption. Beach Bunny loves to snuggle with us and carefully takes care of her baby dolls. She is super silly and must say hi to everyone! One word that describes her is "joy".
43 comments:
That is a great picture!!! And I love that you told us how you added texture! Thanks a bunch--I'll store this away for the day I FINALLY get photoshop. I'm dying for some shoppin' fun!
I love your blog, by the way, and I will certainly be visiting often! ^_^
That is such a great pic! I don't see the flaws but I can imagine what you are going to be able to do when you become an expert at it! FYI: Love all the pics on your sidebar and your header including the verse! Can you tell its my first time LOL Anywho, thank you for stopping by my blog! Happy WW!
You did a great job! I use Photoshop and a few other Adobe programs, but I have never tried Elements. It looks neat!
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Wow! Awesome editing!!!!
Those pictures are great!!
I love your blog, so I'm becoming a new follower!!!
Happy WW!
Cool picture and your photo editing looks great!
Happy WW!
What a perfect shot. you did a great job!
I think it looks wonderful!!
great photo and I love all the editing.
That's very cool! I don't have any programs to do neat editing like that.
Very cool!
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Very cool effects!
That looks pretty cool!
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Great job. Beautiful photo. Happy WW!
GREAT job! You are just amazing. Getting better all the time!
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AWESOME!!!!!!!!
i love playing in photoshop and gimp!! what fun- and i think you did a GREAT job!!
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Love it. I am still trying to figure the whole texture thing. I haven't gotten one that I love yet but I have been practicing.
Did you get that link I sent you? I hope I sent the right one, it was a ton of free fonts for blogs and digital scrap booking.
Wow!! Great job!!
You did a great job! I love it!
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Well done! i'm mad impressed!!!
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What a great pic! Love what you did!
That picture turned out really cool! I really need to play more with PhotoShop than I do - thanks for the inspiration! :)
Happy WW! :)
WOW that's impressive! What a great photo of brothers!
OH that is perfect!
It looks amazing, great job! Such a wonderful photo to work with too!
Can I just say how much I drool over your photos???? You do awesome work! It is on my to-do list to take a class this year to learn how to actually use my camera! And then maybe,just maybe after that I will figure out how to edit..... Well, after I get the stinkin' sensor cleaned so I don't have a smudge on every pic...
Wow that is really good. Now next post teach us step by step moves on how we can learn to do that too. :)
I am SO clueless in photoshop that I often get mad and shut it down. Its pretty sad really.
Sigh.
Beautiful picture by the way.
This is awesome!!!
This is awesome!!!
I'm so jealous! I wish I had your Photoshop skills. Will you come visit me and teach me some tricks? Good for you, girl! You rock and that picture is so cool!
Wow, it looks great!
Great pics! Think Its time that I get photoshop, ive never used it!
You are so talented!! I really need to learn to do more with my photos. Now you have inspired me.
THANKS!!!
I love seeing all the wonderful creations people come up with when using PS. It was a beautiful image to begin with and you turned it into a classic.
Wishing you a scent-sational day!
Patty
AWESOME!!! I'm impressed!
Love it, Love it! You are so talented!!!
I love the photoshop elements!!! Seriously, they should pay you for this advertising! How much does photoshop cost, do you know? Thanks for stopping by my site. BTW, I am now enjoying iced tea from my NEW iced tea maker!!! hooray for tea!!!
Excellente!!! Really cool stuff you're doing! Love the picture of the boys.... you're a great advertisement for photoshop : )
Absolutely incredible job!!!!!!! How in the world do you have time for this though? ;)
That is so cool! I love your blog! :)
Have photoshop, but have not a clue to do with it what you do!!
Great job! Beautiful boys. Awesome editing.
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