What to do on a Rainy Day…

Partly because my computer is getting old and slow I haven’t been playing with textures on my photos recently.  Photoshop especially slows the whole thing down so I need plenty of time if I am going to bother with it.  This is when this persistently rainy weather comes in handy.   These dark and rainy days have not been inspiring for taking walks or taking photos or cleaning the house so I have had extra time to spend with PS and decided to enter Kim Klassen’s Cafe Texture Tuesday this week.  The photo used had to include at least one layer of her texture “Yesteryear” which was offered as a free download…she is very generous like that….and it will be fun to see all the many different uses it will inspire.  Mine are very simple with one layer of texture and the texture brushed away from the flowers. I am still very fearful of overdoing it.  I find that half the battle seems to be in finding the right photo to go with the texture. 
 


Next I will try to learn how to apply a “rollover” to show the original as well as the processed photo….That is for another rainy Monday.

Tuesday night addendum....The Rollover!!
Roll your mouse over the photo to see my goldfinch photo with and without an added texture.




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First Try...

One reason that I haven't been posting much recently is because I have been spending so much time with new toys equipment...Not only have I been experimenting with my new iPhone but since December I have received Photoshop Elements 8 and a new camera.  I don't have any basic technical knowledge so it is a very long, slow learning curve...Slow enough that many of these cold, windy days have found me in my nice warm library experimenting at the computer rather than, say, cleaning the house...

One thing I wanted to try was to enhance a photo with a texture and this is my first attempt...

The original already had an amazing sky...

  ...I cropped the picture and layered  on two free textures, FallinApart by SkeletalMess and WornLove  from CoffeeShop...It may not look it but it took me hours to do this!  I'm thinking I may prefer the original but it was fun! 

Maine 3…

Frenchman’s Bay in Hancock, Maine  is much quieter and flatter than Mount Desert Island …Mr O and I went there for a quiet hike through woods and along the shore…and found many textures…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing Dress-up...

...Actually just playing with boxes and textures while sorting out some old jewelry...

Toy Texture...

I toyed with idea of joining Theme Thursday yesterday but I still needed some photos for my class...Here the story is not only of texture but of time and memories as the bulldozer is a toy from my daughters' childhood and the dump truck was bought for my grandson...He and his sister enjoy both...

That was fun...I think I may try to participate with Theme Thursday regularly.

Textures...

Photography class was not held this week due to school vacation so I have had quite a bit of time to take pictures for next week's assignment: texture... I'm still working on it but here are a few of the pics I've taken with the theme in mind...