Maggie Terlecki
Moderator
Asher,
It's just a blend mode that I tend to use a lot. I know a lot of people use overlay with b/w for dodge and burn but I never touch my original and I will also dupe my duplicate, so use that set to screen. I like it because I screen the whole layer, then add a layer mask, fill with black, then use white brush (usually soft) opacity set really low and brush in the light where I want it, using the X to move from black to white. I suppose the overlay layer may do the same, but I just have trained myself to do it this way. For me, anyways, it is extremely fast and does what I want.
As for the texture, the actual texture (quite dark) was a creative commons, free to use without attribution ( I have many of them, just grungy type of scratches etc., I sometimes take pictures of something and keep as my own. and I added a photoshop pattern on it, set to screen to create the final pattern. I duped it and instead of to a different layer, sent it to the photo and resized to a size I liked once on the photo. Once on, I can simply mask out whatever I don't want covered. The texture was dark to start off with, so for the light part, I simply add a new layer with the texture and invert it so that everything that is dark is light instead, and now I set it to screen and moved it over the light area. I could have done a different style all together, but I decide while I'm doing it what I think will look cool.
Here is an image of my cat, Chiana, with a texture on it, that gives it more mood I think,than the original.
and of an allium bud opening, where the background was a white house and not particularly interesting. I cleaned out the back, added a texture (mine) multiplied it and masked out the flowerhead. I, just think it looks better this way.
I don't do it on everything, I don't think it should be used everywhere, but I don't abstain from using whatever I have at my disposal to create the way I want to. I know it is a cross-over from painting/illustration etc., that I have a lot of experience with so don't feel in the least bit any bit of obligation to keep the photo untainted by any photoshopping.
I hope it was alright to have played with yours with the texture. I do not want to disrespect anyone's method.
It's just a blend mode that I tend to use a lot. I know a lot of people use overlay with b/w for dodge and burn but I never touch my original and I will also dupe my duplicate, so use that set to screen. I like it because I screen the whole layer, then add a layer mask, fill with black, then use white brush (usually soft) opacity set really low and brush in the light where I want it, using the X to move from black to white. I suppose the overlay layer may do the same, but I just have trained myself to do it this way. For me, anyways, it is extremely fast and does what I want.
As for the texture, the actual texture (quite dark) was a creative commons, free to use without attribution ( I have many of them, just grungy type of scratches etc., I sometimes take pictures of something and keep as my own. and I added a photoshop pattern on it, set to screen to create the final pattern. I duped it and instead of to a different layer, sent it to the photo and resized to a size I liked once on the photo. Once on, I can simply mask out whatever I don't want covered. The texture was dark to start off with, so for the light part, I simply add a new layer with the texture and invert it so that everything that is dark is light instead, and now I set it to screen and moved it over the light area. I could have done a different style all together, but I decide while I'm doing it what I think will look cool.
Here is an image of my cat, Chiana, with a texture on it, that gives it more mood I think,than the original.
and of an allium bud opening, where the background was a white house and not particularly interesting. I cleaned out the back, added a texture (mine) multiplied it and masked out the flowerhead. I, just think it looks better this way.
I don't do it on everything, I don't think it should be used everywhere, but I don't abstain from using whatever I have at my disposal to create the way I want to. I know it is a cross-over from painting/illustration etc., that I have a lot of experience with so don't feel in the least bit any bit of obligation to keep the photo untainted by any photoshopping.
I hope it was alright to have played with yours with the texture. I do not want to disrespect anyone's method.
. I must say that I have my preferences (hard light, pin light, linear light, darker color) because they work whenever I got an idea. I think my ideas fit the blending modes I prefer as opposite the other way round, I have been shaped by the tool, so to speak. Those modes in conjunction with the general blending modes (The blend if: option) made my day more than once.
