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How to use your photo textures
So you have taken some amazing photos, and are excited about turning them into photo textures, now what? In this episode we cover how to turn your photo into a great texture.
Your best friend when it comes to using your image as a photo texture are BLENDING MODES. Blending modes will take the information in the image, and blend it in different ways depending on what blending mode you choose. For instance if you have an image that is mostly dark, with a few light areas, and you want the darks to dissapear, try using SCREEN or LIGHTEN. In contrast, if you want the LIGHT areas to disappear in your photo textures, try DARKEN or MULTIPLY.
Most Used Blending Modes
These will do the trick about 90% of the time.
Soft Light
Overlay
Multiply
Screen
Color
What You Will Learn
0:30 – Intro to textures
1:15 – Most common blending modes
1:50 – Copying your photo textures onto your image
2:30 – Showing an example of a texture in use
3:10 – Explanation of Blending modes
4:10 – Using levels to enhance your textures
5:30 – Duplicating textures to add more variation
6:30 – Adjusting SATURATION with the HUE/SAT slider (CMD+U)
7:10 – How to quickly flip through your blending modes
8:00 – BLEND IF adds even more control to your texture
9:00 – Masking out areas of your texture to make them less visible in places
10:20 – Why using textures at a low opacity is important
11:00 – What is your opinion on textures? .
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