The next lesson in the Kim Klassen class I'm taking gives participants the low down or basics or "skinny" on how to use textures. They're like an overlay, which you soften and blend in various ways. The photo above has a grey texture that I downloaded free from Kim's blog in this post, as well as a green overall fill, blended in softlight. I like it pretty well. The photo started life this way:
Before I ended up with the first photo, I also tried this one with the grey texture but no green fill. It's too textured and too light for my taste:
I also tried this one with a free texture called on the edge., blended with hard light:
Kim Klassen seems to be a Goddess of Textures. If you follow her blog, she'll post free textures every now and then. Also, if you join her crazy for textures list, she'll send you free textures every week. You can sign up for the textures list at this link.
So, I think textures are pretty interesting, and I'd like to experiment with a few more. What do you think of textures? Love 'em? Hate 'em? Got any favorite places for free textures (that you've used and know won't virus up your computers?).
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