Moment to Recoverby Joanna Kovalcsik, Vassar, Michigan, USA Original photo  Finished Art  Tell Us A Bit About Your Image: This Chipping Sparrow banged into my French doors during a snowstorm. Shocked and frightened, it sat quietly on the deck for a long time before it could fly again. While it was recovering, I quietly opened the door and took several macro shots of this endearing wee bird. I felt honored and delighted when my photo won First Place Gold in Better Photo's February 2018 Photo Contest and was chosen as Photo of the Day on May 10, 2018. What textures/background collections did you use from The Daily Texture to create this art? On this piece, I worked with a texture from Jai Johnson's Immersed in Light Collection. What software did you use in the creation of this art? My workflow utilizes Picasa, PSE9, and a variety of Topa z programs and filters. I prefer to do my masking in photoFXlabs. I can see why Joanna's photo won in the photo contest...this is an excellent artistic presentation of what to others would appear as simply an ordinary moment. Joanna had the creative vision and foresight to turn the photo into art! Thank you, Joanna, for sharing your sweet bird art with my readers! --Jai
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Enjoy this video of me creating the owl art "The First Breath of Winter", using the new Road Less Traveled Background. :) Resources Used:The Road Less Traveled Single Background
$10.00
The Road Less Traveled Single Background - Take any subject from one of your photos and mask it into this scenic background to create a whole new work of art which will give your subject a sense of place and tell a story. •To use this background, simply place your photo on top of the background in your software and mask away your subject's original background to reveal the new background underneath. •Using your transform tool in your software, you can resize your subject layer and position your subject exactly where you want it on the new background. •You can also add our textures as overlay layers to enhance your creative art, or to add unique color tones throughout your artistic images. •These also make wonderful beginning backgrounds for your digital paintings! Download is presented as ONE (1) JPG file. Backgrounds are 6000x4000 pixels in size and are large size JPG files. Due to the large file size, the download may take several minutes to complete, depending on the speed of your internet connection. NOTE: Our watermark is removed on purchased backgrounds - you will not see the watermark on the downloaded file. This resource is made available in accordance with our commercial use license. Please read the license before purchasing. Winter 1 Texture Collection
$80.00
The Winter 1 Texture Collection offers you a wide variety of textures, for not just your winter subjects and scenes, but also those subjects which require a softer touch and/or cooler tones. You can use these textures "as is" to add a painterly feel to your photographs. Using your transform tool in your software, you can stretch them and position them exactly where you need them for your art. Using your soften/blur/diffusion tools in your software, you can also further soften them if needed to blend perfectly with your photo(s). You can also use these textures as overlay layers to enhance existing photos or to add unique color tones throughout your artistic images.
This collection contains a total of 20 painted textures, 8 color coordinated canvases, and 4 falling snow overlay images, all for one low price. Download is presented as one large zip file. Textures and snow layers are 6000x4000 pixels in size are and large size JPG files. Due to the large file sizes, the download may take several minutes to complete, depending on the speed of your internet connection. This resource is made available in accordance with our commercial use license. Please read the license before purchasing.
In this video, I show you how I created Morning Crossing using the new Road Less Traveled Background. Resources Used:The Road Less Traveled Single Background
$10.00
The Road Less Traveled Single Background - Take any subject from one of your photos and mask it into this scenic background to create a whole new work of art which will give your subject a sense of place and tell a story. •To use this background, simply place your photo on top of the background in your software and mask away your subject's original background to reveal the new background underneath. •Using your transform tool in your software, you can resize your subject layer and position your subject exactly where you want it on the new background. •You can also add our textures as overlay layers to enhance your creative art, or to add unique color tones throughout your artistic images. •These also make wonderful beginning backgrounds for your digital paintings! Download is presented as ONE (1) JPG file. Backgrounds are 6000x4000 pixels in size and are large size JPG files. Due to the large file size, the download may take several minutes to complete, depending on the speed of your internet connection. NOTE: Our watermark is removed on purchased backgrounds - you will not see the watermark on the downloaded file. This resource is made available in accordance with our commercial use license. Please read the license before purchasing. Immersed In Light Texture Collection
$64.00
The Immersed In Light Texture Collection features 20 glowing background textures, all with beautiful, ethereal light. For wildlife, domestic animals, still life, people, landscapes, and more of your favorite subjects, these textures bring a smooth, polished and enchanting look to your fine art!
Use these textures "as is" to add a painterly feel to your photographs by placing them on a layer under your subject and masking away the subject's original background. Using your transform tool in your software, you can stretch them and position them exactly where you need them for your art. You can also use these textures as overlay layers to enhance existing photos or to add unique color tones throughout your artistic images. These also make wonderful beginning backgrounds for your digital paintings! This collection contains a total of 20 textures, all for one low price. Download is presented as TWO (2) large zip files. Textures are 6000x4000 pixels in size and are large size JPG files. Due to the large file size, the download may take several minutes to complete, depending on the speed of your internet connection. This resource is made available in accordance with our commercial use license. Please read the license before purchasing.
Cherishby Darren Fisher Taylor Original photo  Finished Art  I visited a gorgeous Sunflower field and as you know a photographers brain runs in overdrive at so much color and so many blooms. That even we can mess things up at times. I over exposed this image, it but loved the one sunflower that stood out. So The Daily Texture to the rescue once again. I used a texture and played about with blending modes etc. When I got the image where I liked it I added digital effects for a painting look which worked well with the texture. I am always inspired by Darren's beautiful work with flowers! I love how he used a square crop with this to really bring the focus onto the flower bloom. Thank you Darren, for sharing your gorgeous sunflower art with the Daily Texture readers! -- Jai The Lookouts by Nicole Wilde, Santa Clarita, CA, USA Original Photo  Finished Art  I was lucky enough to spot these 3 hawks during an early morning walk with my dogs at a local park. As you might imagine, the editing process with all of those branches was a labor of love! I enlarged one of Jai's textures so that the lightest part highlighted the birds. The tones and painterly feel of the texture really brought this piece together. -Nicole Wilde I'm delighted Nicole chose to share this wonderful hawk art in this series, as this is one of my favorite pieces of hers! What a rare opportunity for a fabulous shot, and the work Nicole did to bring the focus onto the hawks is nothing short of amazing. Thank you, Nicole, for sharing! --Jai Suki in the Fall by Theo Fenraven, Fort Myers, FL, USA Original Photo  Finished Art  I took a picture of my dog, lying on a tar road. She looked great, but the road didn't appeal much. So I used one of Jai's backgrounds, and then she looked fabulous. :) --Theo Fenraven Thank you, Theo! This is a prime example of taking a normal photo and making it GREAT! --Jai |
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