I recently bought Dirty Pictures from Totally Rad, which is basically a plugin for Photoshop to make it easier to add textures to your images. I don’t normally do a lot of textures on my images, partly because I don’t always see it working, and partly because it’s more time than I want to spend sometimes. Well, a new toy is always an excuse to play, and so I took two of my favorite shots from a recent session and played with them. Of course, playing isn’t fun if you can’t do show and tell, too. What do you think?
My first edit:
Dirty Pictured (Dirtied Picture? What’s the appropriate verb?:
Original (clean and lovely but kind of austere):
Dirtied (I really love how this one warmed up):
I have to say, I really enjoyed the layout and interface of the plugin, and I loved that I could make it render previews of all the textures using the actual image I was working on. It made it super easy to decide right away which textures I was interested in using and which ones I might have to delete from my computer entirely.
They look great… I’ve been thinking about trying it out. But I just can’t decide if it fits my “style”?!?!?
i totally love that first shot!! so rare to get siblings to show love without hitting haha! or maybe that’s just mine
Awww, that first shot makes me melt!
love that last warm shot, the texture is subtle and strengthens the image rather than detracts from it. Nice job!
Makes me want to try them out for myself! Looks like fun! And the images are darling!
The second shot is particularly great. I love the end result! Off to browse the TRA website, yet again..!