Adding Texture to Your Picture

When playing around with editing software there are tons of things you can do. One of the things I never really played around with, until recently, was adding texture to my images. When I first moused over the option I was like huh, interesting. But really? I couldn’t think of any reason I would want to give my pictures a different texture.

That’s because I wasn’t being creative enough. There are tons of ways I’ve used the texture feature recently. I had a picture of an eagle that I wanted to use but it was a little bit out of focus. Not a lot, and it was centered really nicely and the colors were fantastic. After playing with some of the editing options I realized I wasn’t going to be able to sharpen it up so I started playing with the options I was less familiar with. I chose a star texture (as in the stars and stripes) to enhance the image. It worked perfectly! I got a patriotic image that was totally unique. I liked it so much I started using it as a special effect for several different images.

As with any digital manipulation you can eat up a ton of space and fragment your hard drive so I suggest defragging after any lengthy editing session. What is your favorite texture to add to images and what has been your favorite edit?

Photo Credit D Sharon Pruitt

June 19th, 2009 by birdievogel | Posted in Digital Manipulation | (0)