{"id":823,"date":"2011-06-09T10:42:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/?p=823"},"modified":"2011-06-09T10:42:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T14:42:46","slug":"textures-for-the-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/2011\/06\/09\/textures-for-the-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Textures for the Taking"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My son had been asking me to take a picture of his dog, India, that he could use as a wallpaper for his ipod. Well, here is the result. I think it was a little over-processed for his taste but I’m quite happy with the result and will be submitting this to the French Kiss “French Script Brush” contest over on Leslie’s blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ve used quite a combination of textures and techniques, including several of the free French Kiss textures as well as one of my own. Here’s the layers palette (click for a full-sized view to be able to read the layers info):<\/p>\n

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The gradient overlay on the Robin’s Egg layer is a brilliant technique that Leslie blogged about here<\/a>. I used a gradient preset from the pastel collection to turn the blue texture into a warm tan and beige one. It is such a very useful technique that really increases the variety of textures at your fingertips.<\/p>\n

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And finally here is my texture that I used in India’s picture and two variants I created using a similar technique — click on the thumbnail to download.<\/p>\n

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Instead of using a layer style, I used a gradient map adjustment layer. You know how photoshop is, there is always 2 to 3 ways to do something. That’s just part of the fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My son had been asking me to take a picture of his dog, India, that he could use as a wallpaper for his ipod. Well, here is the result. I think it was a little over-processed for his taste but I’m quite happy with the result and will be submitting this to the French Kiss […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,20,56],"tags":[72,74,73],"class_list":["post-823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freebies","category-show-me","category-textures","tag-free-textures","tag-gradients","tag-texture-techniques"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2v9Qt-dh","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":837,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sienafallsmedia.com\/gems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}