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Some Of My Images Used As Book Covers - before and after Part 2

 Book Covers - Before and After Part 2 Some time ago I created a post showing some of my images used as covers for books.  I am always curious how my wok is used, sometimes I am disappointed, but most of the time it is a pleasure to see the designs and the usage. So here we go: In these cases my original image hasn't been changed that much, most of the time only a crop and of course title and author.  Sometimes it is hard to make out my own design as you can see in this image:  My images are available for licensing through my agencies Trevillionimages   and   Arcangel Images or find something on my home page. Thanks very much. Dirk

Making of DESOLATION & new textures


Hi friends,
as you might have guessed because of my prolonged absence from my blog, I have been very busy and couldn't find the time for a new post. Today I am returning to announce a new pack of textures, that I have been playing around with for the last couple of weeks. I hope I becomes as well received as the last one and you'll be able to create beautiful pictures.



It consists of 27 high resolution textures and you can get it for € 23.90 / app. 30 US$





As mentioned before I processed various photos with some of these textures and today I'll give you a step by step account of one of my latest creations:

Desolation


I used four textures of the new package to make it look that gritty. 




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I took this photo some years back on a hike through the High Fens on a rainy and foggy November day. The weather, the withered grass and the dead trees were quite spooky. 
It also appeared like some lost & forgotten place where things decay, so the peeling paint texture came to mind and I started working on the photo.

As always here's a screen shot of the layers:



You can guess the evolution of the final result by checking the layers I added from bottom to top.

Tip: If you want to have the structure of a certain texture more dominant just double it and use different blending modes. In this case the stone brushes texture wasn't strong enough, so I first tried to use multiply at 100 %, but it got too dark. But combining a "Multiply"layer with a "Soft light" or "Overlay" layer  did the trick.

Thanks for reading.

Dirk


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