Textured Photo Blends
Textured photo blends are probably the hottest trend in professional photography. And...so, so easy with our Naturals paper series. Follow these simple steps with your image editor (one that has layer blend modes - Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Paint Shop Pro):

1. Open photo

2. Open paper

3. Drag paper on top of photo layer.

4. Adjust layer blend mode of paper to get desired effect. With our Naturals 7 Papers, Overlay usually is my favorite to give a pop in color and texture.

5. Select soft eraser brush at about 30% percent opacity and gently erase paper texture over skin or other areas you don't want texture.

We also offer a Limited Professional Use License for photographers to use our products in their business. Simply purchase one license for each download or CD (must purchase CD license, not download license, for CDs). Note that this license is not available for digital designers to use our products in their designs.

Custom Papers

Our new Naturals 7 Paper Pak has a unique feature in that the papers are desaturated (two have a hint of color), making them great for texture photo blends, but also for adding your own color to make one-of-a-kind papers. At right I added a custom gradient overlay for a painterly effect. Here's how:

Textured Photo Blend Samples

1. Open paper

2. Select two complementary colors for foreground and background color swatches (or use color picker to choose two colors from your photo).

3. In layer palette, click on Create Adjustment Layer icon (black/white circle) and select Gradient.

4. Choose Gradient type by clicking drop down arrow in Gradient Fill dialog, select Style (I chose Reflected), and angle (I chose 47). Click OK when you like the effect. A gradient fill will now cover your texture paper.

5. Adjust layer blend mode of paper (in layer palette) to get desired effect. For the paper at right, I chose Hard Light and adjusted Opacity to 94%.

6. Experiment and have a blast creating 1000's of papers unique to you! Solid color fills are nice, too, or play around with all of the preset gradients included with your image editor.

Michelle Shefveland, Copyright 2008, All Rights Reserved

Supplies: Naturals 7 Paper Pak, Embroidery AlphaSet, Scrap.Frames 2, Butterfly Wings 2 Page Pak, Artistic Templates - Devotion

Custom Paper Sample

All samples above use papers from our Naturals 7 Paper Pak. Use our Naturals paper series in your photo texture work, or in creating one-of-a-kind papers!

Our Naturals Paper Series