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Cardinal

My son took this photo at his backyard bird feeder just after the BIG snow. He lives just north of DC and had twice as much snow as we did here in NEO. I used three textures by Jerry Jones of Shadowhouse Creations - Storm Clouds, Ghost Matter, and Painterly Effect2.

This is how it looked before I added the Painterly Effect2 and I can't decide which one I like the best. Decisions, decisions!

Textures

A few months ago I took a free course in framing and special effects from Jessica Sprague. One of the best things I learned was about the use of textures. Jessica shared some links for freebie textures on Flickr, but I have since found out about a wonderful blog from Rita at Coffeeshop. It is called Shadowhouse Creations and features his wonderful artwork, plus some free textures and brushes. It is well worth a visit. I downloaded some of the textures and started playing.

This is the photo I used - straight out of the camera, no adjustments.

This was with tone textures from Shadowhouse Creations - #3, soft light, opacity 50%

Then I added tone texture #4, soft light, opacity 100%

On this one I used the soft translucent tone #9, Shadowhouse Creations, color burn, opacity 75%

On this one, I used tone texture #10, again from Shadowhouse Creations, overlay, 100% then added his painterly effect texture, soft light, 75% opacity.

I love what these textures can do and how they enhance photos.