denise ippolito

In this mini-tutorial I will walk you through some creative texturing applications as well as multiple filtering applications to bring your textured images to life. Adding texture to an image can really change the look of it. Knowing how to blend an image with the right textures and learning some highlighting techniques can really improve your final product and that is what we will be discussing here. Most of the things you will need to create textured images can be found in Photoshop, however there is a cool program out there called Dirty Pictures by [U][B][URL="http://www.gettotallyrad.com/"]Totally Rad[/URL].[/B][/U] It allows you to very easily change out the texture backgrounds by blending them automatically for you. This is by far the easiest way to apply the textures. But convenience comes with a price. The software is not free it costs $149.00. You do not need to buy this program to apply the textures- it just makes it easier. You don’t even need to buy the textures; they are available all over the web for free. All of the textures that I used here are from[U][B] [URL="http://shadowhousecreations.blogspot.com/"]Shadowhouse Creations[/URL][/B][/U] they offer lots of great free textures and tutorials.
Choosing the Texture:
When choosing a texture to use for an image there are some.... To read the rest of my Tutorial please visit[URL="http://deniseippolito.com/"] [U][B]my blog[/B][/U][/URL] as we are only allowed one image per post here and there are several example images shown in the tutorial.