Flypaper Tex Box Two !

Winter season
Following on the success of Tex Box One we're back with a new pack!
It contains 30 large, professional quality, high resolution textures ranging from the subtle to the grunge.
Over the past several weeks we've had the pleasure of your feedback and have tailored this new pack to our clients needs.
They are smoother, lighter and have more vignettes. There are also clouds (for Bob!) and interesting antique wall textures.
The colours are clearer, following on from the huge hit of 'Apple Blush', we've added several more textural fruit goodies!
This winter collection is also going to be easier to use with darker/lighter images.
The original Tex Box One is still going to be an essential base, we hope you'll have both ready as we'll continue to show use with both!

Still only US $35 for a download.
All our textures can be used in  any editing programme that supports the use of  layers,  Photoshop, Photoshop Elements,  Gimp etc 

For downloads click the Add to Cart button, a download code will be sent to you on payment. 

Buy Tex Box Two

(Please note the file is over 200mb in size so the download may take a while)
Those on very slow connections may prefer to purchase the textures on CD, please get in touch for details.

Flypaper Combo Offer 
Buy Tex Box One and Two 
For only $65

The 30 Textures included in Pack Two are:
Algae, Antiquity Scroll, Archival Canvas, Backdrop, Basalt, Beowulf, Burnished Clay, Chlorophyll, Colosseum Sienna, Concorde, Cyprus haze, Gooseberry, Holmes, Icarus Haze, Labyrinth, Lavender Skies, Leaden Hall, Lime Plaster, Lost Void, Luminescent, Marie Antoinette, Ming, Muscatel, Ordinance Map, Paua Nacra, Peach Blush, Rainbow Trout, Sail Cloth, Sunflower Sky and Voyageur Map

Flypaper Iris

Sometimes when you're texturing it's a toss up between the subtle approach or a heavy treatment. With this iris I spent what seemed like hours trying to get the balance right, it looked nice subtle but in my eyes anyway, looks better with the texture more pronounced.

I processed it using a mix of Textures,
3 textures taken from pack Two and 1 texture from Pack One.
First I duplicated the flower layer and used it with Soft Light @ 24%
this darkened it slightly.
Algae @ Soft Light 63%
Rainbow Trout @ Soft Light 39%
Tarte Tatin @ Soft light 38%
Chlorophyll @ Hardlight 95% desaturated a bit to tone down the green

A layer mask was added to each texture layer and some of the texture was removed from the flower.
I finished with a Levels adjustment to tweak the contrast.

Midwinter...

Another photo from a day trip to a wonderfully frosty Central Otago last winter -many of my photos that day were taken out the car window, a shooting technique I'm getting very practised at as my driver gets sick of me asking him to stop.

Anyway in this photo I cropped off some of the base (a fence) and added some sky using the clone tool, you'll probably see my rough cloning in the before version, but it doesn't matter too much as texture is wonderful for covering up these things!

Processed using
Lost Void @ Soft Light 100%
Ming @ Overlay 100% desaturated a little using a hue saturation adjustment
Holmes @ Hard Light 100% this texture too had it's hue and saturation adjusted so it fitted the subject better -mainly toning down the yellow a bit.
and that was it!

Black Birds ~ Our first guest post !

Lora, who is a semi-professional photographer from Seattle,
wrote to say that she loves our new texture pack and has shared her lovely Black Birds images of before and after and even her recipe!
We hope to showcase more of your donated images and recipes,
just drop us a line! :-)

Lora used Lightroom to crop and did some extra sharpening and exposure adjustment.
All textures used are from the new Tex Box Two!

1st Layer: Algae - overlay @ 88%
2nd Layer: Colosseum Sienna - overlay @ 38%
3rd Layer: Sunflower Sky - overlay @ 73%