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good idea Andy.
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yes.. very good idea =)
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Thank you so much for this info!
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Ok- I've never used textures before!
I followed all of these steps, but am confused if I load them into PS as I would do with a new action, or if I just keep them on my desktop?! More info would be greatly appreciated for us novices. :) Thank you...
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you would save them to your computer. i keep mine on my desktop. the textures are jpg images not actions.
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Hi Andy
Thanks for these helpful steps. However when i drag my texture onto my image, it just comes through as a grey blob!?? Any ideas?? Is it to do with file sizes?? Thank you!!
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huh...thats strange. never happened to me before. i wouldnt think the file size would have anything to do with it. you can always resize the texture to make sure though. are to able to take a screen capture of what it looks like after you drag it over?
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| LIZ | [deleted] says:
Maybe the image is small in comparison to the texture so when it's dragged, the texture is just HUGE on the small image so it looks like a blog? Perhaps just a resizing of the texture image?
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that is what I was thinking Liz...
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yeah...if the image was small in comparison to the texture it would zoom in on the texture. you would have to move it until you reached one corner and then pull it in or just resize first. thanks liz!
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Another thing I've found that works in lieu of using the mask it using the blur tool over where you don't want the texture to show. This works really well with textures that add color or tone because it keeps the tone and color but gets rid of the texture.
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I use this same method too Kat....
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| LIZ | [deleted] says:
ditto here.
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Ah thanks everyone! Its just driving me crazy at the mo and i really wanna get the hang of textures, this is all new to me! So frustrating! I prob should have said im using Elements 7 (Windows) so not sure if that would affect anything either??
Andy - I will do a screen shot and send one over later, im at work at mo- boring!! hehe
Thank you!!
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i've never used Elements so anyone can chime in. are you able to add a layer and change the type and opacity like PS?
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Yeah, can do all of that.
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the textures are jpg images so if you can manipulate the layer there shouldn't be any problems.
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This might be a dumb question but how do you use the blur tool to do this? I have the texture layer over my image, and the blur tool set to 50%, when I brush over the texture layer it's not doing anything. I have never used this tool before in photoshop :)
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Set the texture layer and opacity how you want it, select the Lasso Tool, feather it at 50-100, lasso the area you want to remove, go to Filter, then to Blur, use Gaussian Blur, take off as much as needed and Save.
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Brilliant, thanks very much Andy :)
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welcome...let me know what you think of the process
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Hi Andy, Sorry for not replying on here sooner. Blurring the texture works really well! Thanks very much for your help :)
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that's great...you're welcome :)
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this was AMAZING!!! it's so much easier to apply textures this way thn how i was currently doing it! i "created" my own way it took FOREVER! thank you, thank you, thank you!
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You are welcome ;)
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you would save them to your computer. i keep mine on my desktop. the textures are jpg images not actions.
huh...thats strange. never happened to me before. i wouldnt think the file size would have anything to do with it. you can always resize the texture to make sure though. are to able to take a screen capture of what it looks like after you drag it over?
Maybe the image is small in comparison to the texture so when it's dragged, the texture is just HUGE on the small image so it looks like a blog? Perhaps just a resizing of the texture image?
I use this same method too Kat....
Set the texture layer and opacity how you want it, select the Lasso Tool, feather it at 50-100, lasso the area you want to remove, go to Filter, then to Blur, use Gaussian Blur, take off as much as needed and Save.
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