I started getting requests for a video version of adding the cloud texture.  So I took yet another photo of Sierra and applied the cloud texture. The final image:

This is a step by step instruction on how to perform a similar look as the photo I enhanced a couple days ago.  First start out with your model photo.  Clean up the background or any blemishes on the model you may want to remove. In this case the original background color is very important [...]

Wow, we had an amazing thunderstorm last week.  Right before it started to rain I made this photo. I’m offering it up as a free texture photo.  But a lot of people don’t know what you can do with it aside from just adding it to the background.  So here’s a photo I made of [...]

What do you do on a rainy day when you don’t want to go outside?  Hunt down interesting textures in your home. Actually there’s no bad time to get texture photos.  We can use them in very many interesting ways.  I have three here that I’ll use in upcoming vlog entries.  And you know what’s [...]

When you want some clouds in PhotoShop as a texture, why use the clouds filter?  It’s a reasonable filter for what it produces, but it doesn’t make clouds.  It makes a cloud-like blotchy pattern.  I can see a bit of a pattern in this filter.  That’s because it’s created by an algorithm. Clouds are one [...]