How I Did It (Another Long Tutorial)

Just for fun, I wanted to play with texture yesterday, especially since I found out I could put my macro attachment on my 50 mm f/1.8 lens. Here's what I did. (Click on the small screen-shots to see them enlarged.)

I started with, I thought, a great photo. (135mm, 1/200, f/4, ISO 1600)

Then, I opened it in PS Elements 6 (my go-to program for anything and everything) and resized it.

I opened up my texture file (which I made myself) and dragged a layer over to my cherry image. (By the way, this texture is a photo of my jeans taken with my macro attachment, and made into b/w.)

I put the first layer of texture in Color Burn at 18% opacity.

Then I dragged another texture layer over and put it in Screen at 47% opacity.

The third texture layer I dragged over I put in Soft Light at 71% opacity.

This third texture layer I put a filter on: I used Stylize and Emboss at 135 degrees, 23 pixels, 99%.

For final touches I put a photo filter adjustment layer in Magenta, 25% density, and 25% opacity in Normal mode.

Then I threw in my watermark with the letter color matching the background in Multiply.

That's it.

Voila.

But in the end... seriously... I prefer the SOOC.