Fun with textures

Inspired by my friends over at the image is found photography, I thought I would take a crack at introducing some textures to my images. Here is my first experiment.



f/2.8, 1/80s, 17mm, ISO 800

For reference, this is a sample of the concrete texture I used (the original is too big to display here). I flipped the texture horizontally so the crack you see there would appear on the right side instead of the left as it is below.

(I found this image on some free texture site.)

photo textures from Jesh de Rox

Jesh de Rox sells a texture package that allows you to change the way your photos look by applying textures to your photos in post-processing. His home page contains a flash slideshow of before/after shots that are pretty incredible. Some of the examples go from looking like a pretty typical wedding photo to looking like a painting that I could see myself hanging on my wall.

From his site:

"you are purchasing 35 high-res Texture image files used in Jesh de Rox's award winning experiential post processing style, as well as the license to use them for personal and commercial photographs and/or art pieces."

Really cool stuff. I'm not very proficient with Photoshop myself at this point, but it does mention that the texture set comes with a short instructional video to help get you started, although they suggest taking one of their workshops to get the full experience.

http://finearttextures.com/