It's so easy and fast to mask your photo right in with the new Altered Collection textures!  In the video below, I show you how I create an artistic bobcat portrait in under 15 minutes using this collection.  

In this video, I demonstrate using the Forgotten Coast background with a snapshot of a wet bald eagle on a dreary day.  

This morning I created a new work of art featuring one of our sweet fawns who is ready to begin the journey into the world.  I use the new "The Wind Stills" background for this art.  I hope you enjoy the video!

Good Morning!  Fall is in the air here in Tennessee, and believe it or not, I still have a few magnolia flowers blooming.  A customer asked me recently about creating flower art and how I get the softness and cloud-like look.  So I decided to do a short video for you guys.  I hope this is helpful!

Key Points:

•  It's all in the masking!  Flower on top of texture, mask away edges using a large, round, soft brush.
•  Mask right over the edges of petals and leaves, varying size and opacity of the brush
•  Duplicate the bottom texture layer and put it on top - try various layer modes and opacities for that layer.  This brings the color and texture of the actual texture right into your flower
•  Use textures from different collections if desired.  Mask away parts of the texture layer if necessary.

In this video, I create another work of Great Horned Owl art, this time using one of the backgrounds from the Moods 2 Petite Collection.  Enjoy!

In the video below, I create a work of moody bear art using the new Moods 1 Petite Collection. 

For this piece, I blended one of my recent owl photos with backgrounds and textures from the Stormscapes and Starry Skies collections.  Watch the video below!

I've been playing with the new "Waxed" Overlay Collection, which is a group of textures designed to be used as layers on top of your photos to give them a misty, ethereal, encaustic, waxy look.  Below are a couple of recent landscapes I've created using Waxed, as well as some other textures, to take my landscape snapshots taken from the car and turn them into works of fine art.  I've done an overview video of the second image in an effort to show you how I've worked with these textures {and a few others} to give these images their new looks.  I hope you enjoy the video and will love experimenting with the Waxed Textures as much as I do! :) 

Part of the fun of doing what I do is being able to take my subjects to different places, different environments, and use different styles.  In the video below, I take you through a little bit of my process on how I create multiple pieces of art by masking away my subject's background and placing different backgrounds and textures underneath her, to create a host of unique looks.

"Today's Recipe" is a new project I've started sharing on The Daily Texture Facebook page.  Please follow the page and make sure to comment on the recipes so Facebook will continue to show you the new posts!

Today, however, this image was one I felt I needed to explain a bit more than could be shared on my recipe sheet.  So I've created a video for you, going over in detail what I've done on "Christmas Chickadee".  I hope you enjoy it!

P.S.  If you're working in Photoshop, and wish to learn how to do masking, color changes, and SO MUCH MORE in that software, I highly recommend the Photoshop Artistry course.  You will become a master at using that software in no time with this amazing course!