Wuestenhagen Imagery texture blog

Hello,
today I want to share how I processed an image that turned out to be quite nice, but on a second  look felt not good regarding its composition.

Here is the result that I like, but somehow knew wouldn't work



The Processing

I used one of my Lightroom presets to do the basic processing. I usually tweak this preset to adapt it to the image.

From here:


to here:


I decided to apply what is called "Orton-effect" to gat a dreamy soft glow. You can fin my tutorial on this here--> How to create the Orton Effect
I liked the overall tones and chose only to add two textures to achieve a subtle canvas texture

Take a look at the texture WHITEWALLS  and FLUTTER on my site.

Though I liked the processing, I wasn't satisfied with the image as a whole. Yesterday I came up with two different crops. Thus making two images out of one.
1. the one with the path as leading line


and 2. the part on the left, where the light is breaking through


What do you think? Do you sometimes face si…

Hello,
just wanted to tell you, that I have created a set of 40 Cloud and Fog brushes. They are available in my Creative Market shop here:

Cloud and Fog Brushes




Fill your skies with high resolution clouds or add subtle mist and fog to your landscapes.

Examples





If you have any questions, please contact me.

Thank you,
Dirk

Hello

Some of you may remember, that I have a gallery of almost 180  textures on my Website, that allows you to put together 30 textures of your choice for only 19,90 €!

You'll find a wide variety of textures - paper, grunge, painterly, frames and much more.

Today  I added  these 10 textures




You can check out the other 168 textures here:

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You can currently save 20% on all my textures with coupon code OCTOBER20 until October 11, 2018!
If you are not sure how to add the textures into your cart, you'll find more information HERE
Thank you very much! Dirk

Hello,
the other day I was suddenly disturbed by a soft bang on the pane of my terrace door and I found a little bird sitting on my floor. The little creature ( a robin) was obviously dazed and didn't move, but started flying around when I approached it trying to get it out of my apartment without causing further harm. It decided to hide behind one of my loudspeakers. I lured it out of hiding with some bread crumbs and after flying around in my room, stopping here and there it finally found its way out again. The image you see was taken on one of its stops.






The original of this image wasn't particularly interesting and the empty space of the wall and part of the door frame were destined to be treated with textures.


Some time ago I collaborated with app developers and contributed roughly 100 textures to their app called Stackables but I also decided to make these textures available for desktops as well.
I used three of these textures to process this image.



Processing




The door f…

Hello all,
today I'd wanted to show you how I did the image "Silent Running".











Processing
As so often with my images this is a misty autumn scenery with tree silhouettes and birds and myself running. Birds and the image of myself I added in post.

I used three of my textures that are included in the Vintage Summer Grunge pack.

If one uses grungy textures with strong features, one has to be careful not to over power the image, therefore some more less advanced techniques come into play.

I want to point out a techniques that I applied while processing this image. It is the advanced blending Blend if 


Before/After video





Layers


Blend if - the use of the advanced blend mode "Blend if" is indicated by the two overlapping squares on the right side of the panel. 
The texture Downing I used on this layer is a very strong texture, that was overpowering the subtle fog parts of my image, so I thought that I had to reduce the effect and decided to use "blend if". How …

Hello

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I have applied two of the textures on the following image. Please move your mouse over the image to see a before/after effect. Please check out the screenshot of the PS layers for more information.









To lessen the effect of the silver blue texture on the light misty part, I have applied a layer mask and  painted with a soft brush at 50% opacity until I was satisfied with the result. To achieve the grunge texture effect in the dark parts I used the second texture in blend mode Luminosity, that way I got the structure without altering the tones of the image.  Finally I had to correct the contrast with a Curves layer.
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