Photo Plus - UK (2019-09)

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PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

THE MISSION

Apply one of our

free textures to

your shots to give

it some punch

Time needed

10 minutes

Skill level

Beginner

Kit needed

• Photoshop
  Elements

Add texture easily

Dan Mold details how you can easily give your photographs a beautiful

fine-art finish using our free texture pack

photograph is made

up of many different

components, including

composition, colour,

contrast and tone. The

texture of a photo is just as

important to the overall

effect, but it’s often

overlooked. So this month

we’ve created 12 texture

images that are free to

download (see link on the

left) and can be added to

your images to give them

some extra depth.

The textures we’ve provided

are some photos of rusty,

beach-weathered metal that has

loads of ‘grit’ which will give our

example landscape an

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Once you’ve experimented with

our textures you can have great

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need to do is take a picture of

something that has plenty of

character, such as metal, wood,

stone and even paper, then add it

to a folder on your hard drive to

build up your collection and give

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macro lens will give you more

options, as these optics allow you

to get closer to your subject and

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Then you’ll want to use your

Canon camera’s aperture priority

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around f/8 for a decent amount of

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your shutter speed is around

1/200 sec or faster to avoid

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Here, we’re going to show you

how to add a texture to an image

• any will work but we’ve gone for
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  learn how to blend it into the
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  erase parts of the texture to reveal
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