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Using Your Photos as Textures

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:25:58 +0000

Today's tutorial is more of an experimental idea than showing you a new technique. I thought it would be fun to bring parts of another photo and use those parts as textures. From me and my husband's road trip back in the summer I shot a ton of photos from our roadside adventures and one of them happened to be a little gem called Iowa 80--The World's Largest Truckstop (!!!) in Walcott, Iowa. I didn't feel as if any other textures would work for this particular photograph and I thought, well, I'll make my own to bring some continuity to the image. I decided on using this photo I had taken of a big rig to use for the textures (I used the grill and the lights).

Also, I would like add what steps I used to get to the image we are starting with, but I did that months ago and while looking through the psd I have no recollection of what I was even doing. Has anyone else done that? I was all, "Was I drunk when I did this? Sleepwalking again?" Y'all would hate me if added that part to the tutorial. SO. MANY. LAYERS.

Here are the images I used for this tutorial if you want to try it on your own: DOWNLOAD TUTORIAL FILES

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Adding Art Borders to Your Photos–3 Ways!

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:24:00 +0000

It's a new year, and with that, Photoshopgirl.com is back with a new tutorial and a new resolution! Not the New Year's kind, but the larger tutorial size kind. Monitors keep getting bigger and my web stats says it's time to bump up the resolution for the vast majority of readers, so the new tuts will be somewhere in the neighborhood of 1200x750, up from 960x600. Hopefully that doesn't impede on too many of you still using 1024x768, but hey, a higher resolution is just a setting away!

So, remember when I shared 50 Free Photo Art Borders? Well, now I finally have the tutorial to go with them. I know, I know, it's about time. The great thing about this particular tutorial is that it's a 3-in-1. Score! Amirite?

In the tutorial we'll be using layer masks, the free transform tool, blend modes, and erasing and vignetting the non-destructive way. The border I used is from the 50 Free Photo Art Borders pack, but you can also find it here.

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How to Add Bokeh Textures to Your Photos

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:53:50 +0000

I hope I inspired all of you with yesterday's post! Today I am going to show you how to add the bokeh textures to your photos. It's a very simple technique that uses the free transform tool, blend modes, and adjustment layers. Enjoy!

You can get the texture I use in this tutorial from regularjane's bokeh texture pack 001. I've also uploaded just the one I used (#15) here in case anyone has trouble downloading and extracting the pack.

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Quick and Easy Light Leak Effect

Kelly Anne Wills — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:25:32 +0000

As most of my readers already know I am a big fan of the toy camera world. The Lomos, the Holgas, I can't get enough! I STILL don't own one of my own, which is sad, but the good news is that I can still try to get some their signature effects digitally in Phototshop. After seeing this list of 30 Interesting Light Leak Shots from Abduzeedo, I had to try it out. Light leaks happen when light leaks through the camera and causes film to overexpose. The beauty of light leaks is that they are happy accidents. They vary in color, shapes, and are beautifully imperfect.

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Bleach Bypass Effect

Kelly Anne Wills — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:42:38 +0000

It's been used in the films Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, and others. Bleach Bypass is actually an effect you can achieve on film when you skip bleaching while processing color film, leaving the silver retained on the negative. In the end, what you get is an image with high contrast, graininess, and reduced saturation. If you would like the grainy feel in your image, visit my Realistic Film Grain tutorial!

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Faded White and Pink Effect Inspired by Nylon Magazine

Kelly Anne Wills — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 20:40:21 +0000

Well pretty much everything is in Nylon. Photo toning is probably my favorite thing to do in Photoshop. Well that and play around with layer masks, but that's neither here nor there today. I've been thinking of turning this into a series since there is just so much in that magazine that gets my creative juices flowing.

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How To Warm Up Your Photos

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:41:22 +0000

This is easy to do and the technique is very flexible and simple to adjust on the fly, have fun!

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The Better Way to Vignette Photos

Kelly Anne Wills — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:43:21 +0000

It's imperfect like real vignettes are, the transitions are smoother, my life is filled with sunshine and rainbows. LIFE CHANGING.

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Quick and Easy Sepia

Kelly Anne Wills — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:12:45 +0000

Sepia is the dark brown pigment that comes from secretions of the ink sac of a Cuttlefish. That ink was then mixed in with other chemicals that resulted in the tones of the photograph to be in shades of brown instead of gray, back in the 1880s. They have since developed artificial toners and now with Photoshop you don't even need the chemicals. Or the Cuttlefish. Pretty neat.

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Effect Inspired By Coldplay’s Violet Hill Video

Kelly Anne Wills — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:42:33 +0000

So when I saw the Violet Hill video I loved the somewhat dark and gritty feel of it. And now the tut is born.

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