Jan
04
One way to create a background for the Texture Layer technique is to get scrapbooking or designer or any other decorated paper which you can then scan and manipulate to work with your photo.
I found lots of these wonderful papers at Michael’s; they have a couple of aisles displaying a bunch of designer papers and since they all look good the real problem is which ones to get.
I like using these papers for photo backgrounds mainly because after I scan them and have a digital copy I can use the actual paper in my mixed media projects,
such as this one.
Posted in Best Photos, techniques, texture layer downtown LA papers texture layer
Nov
10
To celebrate my scanner’s return to life I decided to scan an old paper and apply the texture layer technique to a photo.
I chose a photo I took recently in Gettysburg when I stumbled in the evening upon these guys who were camping in tents looking cool in their civil war uniform.
So I layered the old paper over the original color photo and then converted the photo to black and white but left the paper in its original sepia tone. I set the blend mode of the top layer to overlay 80% transparency. Next I applied the dodge and burn tool to different areas as needed.
And for the final touch I added an old ragged border.
Now this takes me back!
Posted in techniques, texture layer civil war gettysburg texture layer
Oct
05
The drive from Washington DC to Winchester VA was so smooth and the air was so clear. We had to stop by a river we found on the way; it turned out to be the Shenandoah river. We met a guy who sent us to a monastery up the hill where we got some open views of the surrounding area and fudge for our hosts in Winchester. I took a few pictures up there. It is such a different world.
Posted in Best Photos, Road trip, texture layer Road trip texture layer virginia
May
27
For different reasons some of my photos are closer to my heart than others.
Sadly the main reason I like one picture over the other has no artistic explanation at all. in fact the reason is quite trivial; it has to do with the circumstance under which the photo was taken, mainly how I felt at the time, and hardly ever has anything to do with the actual qualities of the image.
And so I keep going back to these photos and I often pick them out to use them when I experiment with a new image process.
One of such images is this picture to the left which I took in NYC in July 2001.
I believe one of the explanations I grew attached to this photo is that I took it while, for the first time, I was completely alone in NY. It was quite a memorable day.
Same image under my infamous distress process:
This one was aged with a texture layer:
And finally a mixed-media image transfer (on canvas).
By the way the drawing above the image is a transfer of the original empire state building blueprint.
Posted in Experimental, Image transfer black and white Image transfer New york nyc photo print texture layer
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