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Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures

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Overview

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Learn how to transform relatively straightforward photographs into distinctive visual art, using Photoshop backgrounds and textures.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Extending the power of photographic imagery
  • Backgrounds and textures for your use
1. Working with Backgrounds
  • Different background ideas
  • Blending modes for high-key images
  • Masking an image
  • Photoshop selections and backgrounds
2. Where Do Backgrounds Come From?
  • Commercial sources of backgrounds
  • Creating your own backgrounds
3. Working with Textures
  • Textures are overlays
  • Textures and blending modes
  • Poetic, romantic, and dreamy effects
  • Textures for floral imagery
  • Using textures for people photography
  • It was a dark and stormy landscape
4. Licensing and Making Textures
  • Commercial texture libraries
  • Photographing your own textures
  • Texture plugin from Topaz Labs
5. Textures on the iPhone
  • Post-production workflow on the iPhone
  • Mextures app and textures
  • Distressed FX for layers and blending
  • The full-featured Snapseed app
  • Image Blender app for compositing
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Harold Davis

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