Textures are HOT right now. Whether you use them on photos taken of families or seniors, landscapes, wildlife, pets, or just add them to your own personal photos…they create some amazing effects. Once you get the hang of it, adding texture to your photos isn’t hard at all. There’s no set ‘rules’ on how to add texture except…you need to find some textures. I’ll go into that later in this post.
You should have basic knowledge of using brushes and layers in photoshop.
Here’s three of my textured wildlife images, that I framed and donated a couple months back to a wildlife rehabilitation group:
First up, texture tutorials
There’s so many ways to texture your photos….the best thing is to play around and find the best and easiest way for you. Here’s a few tutorials:
Here’s a texture tutorial on Flickr
Here’s a texture tutorial on Associated Content
Here’s a texture tutorial on DeviantArt
Those tutorials will give you the basics on how people add textures to photos. Once you start playing around you might come up with your own ideas on adding texture.
Finding Textures:
There’s so many free resources out there for textures, just make sure when you find textures, that the owner of the textures allows them for the use you have in store for them. If you’re going to create a textured photo and sell it, you should make sure that the texture is allowed for commercial use.
here’s a few resources for textures:
Textures on DeviantArt HERE
CG Textures HERE
Texture King HERE
Textures For Layers on Flickr HERE
Texture Inspiration:
And, there’s so much out there on Flickr that can inspire you and give you ideas for your own images, try checking out these groups to get ideas on your next texture project.
