Whilst driving home from Carcassonne one blustery day last January,
I came across this tree nursery, growing on the banks of a flooding river near our famous Olive Oil factory, the Coopérative Oléicole L'Oulibo, Bize-Minervois
The setting sun lit up these trees like a stage-set!
If you look closely you'll see I've removed the tips of an olive tree in the bottom left hand corner.
Moments after I took these pictures using a polarizer, storm clouds brought the whole scene back into winter..
Firstly, I just used one texture twice.
Dangerous Liaisons @ Linear light, opacity 58%,fill 45%
Dangerous Liaisons again, but this time with full Gaussian Blur,@ 32% opacity, fill 45%
After several colour tweaks and differing adjusted layers I finished with a smooth Grosgrain @ 30% opacity and 20% fill.
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8 comments:
Wonderful transformation Paul! Inspirational work :-)
Hi! I understand the blending mode, but not the bits about 'fill'. Can you please fill me in? :)
Hi,
glad you like it, thanks:-)
There are two blending box sliders in CS.
The first one is Opacity, the one under is
'Fill Opacity',
I call it 'fill' just to shorten the typing!
Jill tells me she doesn't touch this slider,
but I find it useful.
great work, love the mood here.
oh i see. I only use elements. Is there a sneaky way of doing that with elements?
Sorry, no idea?
I think its best to just play around with what you have, the above recipe is just a guide, and shouldnt be followed to the letter! :-)
Yeah certainly. I was just wondering if the fill factor made a huge or subtle difference because I use textures a lot but have never had the ability to use that fill bit that's all. Thanks.
I think the 'Fill' makes the texture less dark, It helps to lighten the dark tones of the texture.
Hope that helps?
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