Overview
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Learn how to transform relatively straightforward photographs into distinctive visual art, using Photoshop backgrounds and textures.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Extending the power of photographic imagery
- Backgrounds and textures for your use
- Different background ideas
- Blending modes for high-key images
- Masking an image
- Photoshop selections and backgrounds
- Commercial sources of backgrounds
- Creating your own backgrounds
- Textures are overlays
- Textures and blending modes
- Poetic, romantic, and dreamy effects
- Textures for floral imagery
- Using textures for people photography
- It was a dark and stormy landscape
- Commercial texture libraries
- Photographing your own textures
- Texture plugin from Topaz Labs
- Post-production workflow on the iPhone
- Mextures app and textures
- Distressed FX for layers and blending
- The full-featured Snapseed app
- Image Blender app for compositing
- Next steps
