Welcome top the eighth stop on the DHD Mad March Memories blog hop! If you started at the beginning of the blog hop then you are arriving here from Celeste Smith’s blog. If you are coming here from somewhere else, be sure to go to the first stop of the blog hop, so that you don’t miss anything!
If you started at the begining, you know that you need to gather a letter from each blog and then, after finding them all, head over to DHD to download this gorgeous collab kit created by the DHD designers:
I have a ‘letter’ to give you, as well the chance to win some awesome giveaways. But first, I have a little tip/tutorial to share with you!
Tutorial: Using Scrapbook Papers to Add Texture to Photographs
One of the things that I love the most about digital scrapbooking, is the number of projects I can use my supplies with. Today I am going to show you how to use your digital papers to add texture to your photos. Adding texture is a nice way to make your photos really stand out, and textured solid scrapbook paper is perfect for this.
Step 1: Open the image that you want to texturize in photoshop, or photoshop elements. I will be showing you how to do this in Photoshop CS5, but the same technique should work in elements as well.
Here is the “before” shot of the photo that I will be texturizing (it is of my lovely niece Cadison)
Step 2: Decide on the paper that you want to use. Grungy papers tend to work best. Add the paper into your photoshop document and resize it so that it is the same size as the photo. Because I am using the paper purely for its texture, I don’t worry about warping and stretching it.
Step 3: For this next step there are a few different things that you can do. You can use your paper as the color it is, or you can remove the color. To remove the color you go to image> adjustments> desaturate.
Step 4: This is the fun part. Now that you have your paper placed in your document it is time to start playing with the blending modes. You can find the blending modes in your layers palette. The modes that I use the most are overlay, soft light and color burn. You can also adjust the opacity of the layer. If the texture is looking too strong, just lower the opacity, or try a different blending mode.
Step 5: If you are texturizing a photograph of a person, you may want to remove the texture from their faces. To do this you could either use the eraser and with a large soft round brush erase away the parts of the paper you don’t want, or you could create a layer mask and just paint away the parts you don’t want to show. I usually use a layer mask, that way if I later decide that I don want texture on the entire image, I can just delete the mask.
After just adding 1 paper to my image here is how it is looking:
Step 6: If you are happy with how the texture is looking, then you can stop now…or if you want more texture you can add a few more papers to your document. Just keep adding layers and sdjusting the blending modes and opacity, until you are happy with the result. I wanted some more depth and texture to my image, so I ended up adding a few more paper layers. Which resulted in this:
Step 7: Have fun with it! Don’t be afraid to try anything and everything…experiment until you get your photo to look how you want it to. Don’t be afraid of making mistakes, sometimes mistakes bring about happy little accidents of awesomeness. Also, don’t use just solid papers…try some of your patterned papers too!
In the end I ended up adding a patterned paper, from my floraux kit, to the image. Here is what my final photograph looks like:
To get you started playing with textures I have a free download of three of the solid papers I used with my photo. To download the papers, just click on the image.
This downloadable file is free for personal use only. If you would like to blog about this free download, please accompany any images from my site with a credit and link back to this blog post. As a courtesy please do not link directly to a downloadable file but rather to this page. Thanks & enjoy!
If you create anything using the papers, or this technique, post it in the gallery at design house digital so that I can see it! In addition to the free papers, I will be giving away 3 awesome giveaways to 3 awesome people!
Now, onto the giveaways:
- 1 lucky person will receive a $10 gift certificate to persnickety prints
- 1 lucky person will receive a $10 itunes gift code (gotta have some good tunes to scrap to!)
- 1 lucky person will receive a $10 gift certificate to my shop
There are four ways to enter for a chance to win. The more ways you enter, the better your chances are of winning! Your deadline is Wednesday March 14th 11:59 pacific time. All winners will be chosen at random.
- 1. Comment on this post
- 2. Subscribe to my newsletter
- 3. follow me on twitter (@artmidget)
- 4. follow my blog using the networked blogs widget in the right sidebar (or click here)
Again, the winners will be chosen at random, and the more ways you enter, the better your chances! I will announce the winners on my blog on Thursday March 15th!
**This giveaway is now closed. A list of the winners can be found here**
My letter for you is…
Thanks for stopping by! Your next stop is the amazing Gennifer Bursett!!
P.S (if you haven’t already grabbed it, I have a brand new freebie that I posted a few days ago)
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I LOVE blending. I have taken several classes and I look at digi scrapping in a whole new way…Thanks for your tutorial, and the paper goodies.
I LOVE your tutorial! Really does add interest to the photo. Thank you for sharing.
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Thanks so much for the beautiful texture pages and the great tutorial!
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Great tutorial and thank you for the paper…great yellow!
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Such a great demo! Thanks for the tip!
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Thanks Erica! I learned a lot.
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I will have to try out your tip…love the idea of adding texture to my photos!
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GREAT tutorial and great give away too! thanks Erica!
Thank you for the great tip and the papers to “give it a try!” And thank you for the chance to win!
Holy moly, Erica! I know I’m probably not eligible to win, because I already get your awesomeness for free, but GREAT PRIZES, woman!! People would be a fool not to enter!
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thank so much for the tutorial and freebie… really nice… LOVE the pic!!
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Wow! Thank you so much for this awesome tutorial! I am kind of a newbie to digital scrapping and I would never have known you could do this! LOL!!!!!!
xo,
Candi
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I am following you on twitter now and I also tweeted about your post! :)
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Candi
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Loved the tut and the freebies.
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Thanks for a great tutorial! Texture on photos adds so much.
great tutorial. thank you!
Does it absolutly needs to be with pothosohp cs .cause im using pothosohp 7 and i pretty much work it out te only problem i have is when it turn it to screen, it makes a different effect but it doesnt change in like definite line and that the big part of doing that so i dont know if there an alternative or somethin that i could do to make it happen .by the way nice video, easy to fallow and nice djob thx
Thank you for the great papers and tutorial. Your neice is beautiful!
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Erica, thank you so much for the PS tips, the beautiful paper freebies and wow the great giveaways. You’re awesome!
Thanks for the tutorial! This is something I’ve never tried.
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Thanks for the great tutorial and patterns to try it out with!
Thank you so much for your tutorial.
Thanks for the tutorial! I love taking pictures that has a grass or sky background, and adding texture to it would be a great way to add interest yet keep what I wanted in the photo when I took the photo.
Love the script textured through the photo
wonderful giveaway! Thanks!
Thank you for your awesome tutorial and freebies. LOVED it!!! So much appreciated!!
wow, 3 prizes and extra chances to win! Thanks for the freebie and the link to your older freebie, too
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thanks for the tutorial and the papers.
I copied your tutorial into a word doc for my PSE technique binder. I am so new at this and need to be able to keep track of it all.
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Thank you for the GREAT tutorial and the freebie texture papers… I didn’t know you could do that to photos, but I am just starting to learn digital. :)
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omg persnickety prints gets all my extra money! a $10 gift certificate would be wonderful..of course the other gifts are amazing as well. thanks for the chance to win!
i love using textures on pics – thanks so much!
thanks for the fabulous tutorial and inspiration. and for the wonderful papers too.
Love the textures, thanks so much!
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Thank you for the tutorial – I am saving it for when I have some time free to try it all out – shame we can’t download extra time LOL Thanks for the chance to win too – best wishes to you!
Great tutorial! TFS
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thanks! i still need to play around with backgrounds and textures on photos!
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GREAT tutorial. Thanks very much for the chance to win!
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