With a vast collection of amazing textures in her PDPA Texture Shoppe, Bonnie is definitely making a splash in the pool of talented artists creating digital textures.
I discovered textures not too long ago, and now find myself hopelessly and happily addicted to using them in my photo editing. I'm constantly visiting Bonnie's blog to see what new textures she's cooking up. And because Bonnie is a generous and sweet blogger, she often creates free textures for you and I to download. Love this!
As my submission for YSB today, here are my before and after photos, using Bonnie's latest free texture, Dappled Dawn.
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| Before |
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| After with Dappled Dawn Texture by Pixel Dust Photo Art |
~Now for the good stuff~
Bonnie is making available her Pixel Dust Texture Collection I, 36 textures in all with a retail value of $30 -- as a giveaway to one lucky YSB participant.
Each of these actions will equal one entry in the giveaway:
1. Visit Bonnie's Texture Shoppe at Pixel Dust Photo Art, and come back here and tell me which of her free textures, listed under the Free For You tab, you like.
2. Use one or more of Bonnie's textures to edit one of your photos, blog about it, let me know about it in a comment to this post -- and submit it to Your Sunday Best, using the linky below.
3. Follow A Rural Journal via Google Friend Connect and let me know about it in a comment on this post.
4. Follow Pixel Dust Photo Art via Google Friend Connect and let me know about it in a comment on this post.
5. Share this post on your Facebook page and let me know about it in a comment on this post.
6. Tweet about this giveaway and let me know about it in a comment on this post.
If you love the look of textures but aren’t sure how to add them to your photos… here is a tutorial that explains how to add textures in Photoshop Elements (PSE.)
Don't have PSE? You can also use free software called Gimp, which is very similar to PSE. Go to my Tutorials page above that explains how to download Gimp and add textures to your photos.
Because of the July 4th holiday next weekend, I will keep this linky open until Tuesday, July 5th. The winner of the giveaway will be announced on the following Saturday, July 9th at 5:00 p.m. when a new Your Sunday Best Photo Challenge will be posted.
There will be no new Your Sunday Best next weekend.
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It's time again for Your Sunday Best, where photographers can post their favorite shot of the week.Whether you use a Polaroid, a point-and-shoot, an iPhone, a fancy Nikon or Canon, or a Kodak Brownie -- everyone is welcome.
If you would like to participate, here are a few simple rules:
1. Pick your favorite photography post of the past week.
2. Please only post photos you have authority to use.
3. One post per week, per person, please.
4. Include the Your Sunday Best badge, or a link to my post, in your blog post. (If you need help with this, please email me.)
5. Leave a link to your current Your Sunday Best blog post url (not your main blog url) on the Linky Tools prompt.
6. Consider visiting some of the other blogs listed, because they rock ... comment, view, learn and enjoy!
When to Post:
Linky Tools will be available every Saturday at 5:00 pm CST.
37 Comments:
Your edited photo looks wonderful, and I like the color in the original one too!
I like both pictures, one is beautiful and natural and the other is wonderfully artistic!
Stunning editing Nancy! Honored that you used one of my textures to achieve such a lovely image.
The texture stuff is so cool! I have Photoshop but don't think it's elements? I'm not so good at using it. Obviously.
But I love what you did with the photo! And I'll be by to link up tomorrow.
Truly love both versions. One looks like photography and the other looks like a painting.
Teresa
Nancy, this is wonderful. I love the gorgeous tones!
Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!
Beautiful photos in texture, light and color, exquisite and bright flowers. I like both before and after.
Laura...it's amazing what you've done with the photo! I continue to be surprised at each use of that texture; each one is lovely, however. Your resulting photo is beautifully dramatic.
Both photos are beautiful! Bonnie has some great textures! I think one of my favorites would be je me souviens! Sign me up for the giveaway please!
I also mentioned the giveaway in my YSB post today!
Thanks for this link. Awesome texture series and I really like what you did with this photo.
I don't have/use PS but after seeing this I may need to get on the textures bandwagon ! Very nice - before and after !
Very nice!
Lovely edit!
Your edited shot look amazing. I love how the flowers color changed, it is beautiful.
1. I´m following you lovely Nancy. :)
2. I will link back to facebook.
3. I will link back to twitter.
4. I have linked in my post.
5. I visited Bonnie and I like most the second and second last textures. Even so I don´t know how to work with it till now. If I have time *seufz* I will have a look on your tutorials for gimp. I have downloaded gimp but don´t know how to work with it. So I´m only using Picasa till now.
So there is much in front of me!
Have a great sunday. LG Tina :)
Your texture work is beautiful! I just recently found out about gimp. I booked marked your tutorial page and will be sure to use it!
Thanks!
I would love to try the dessert canvas. I'm learning photoshop...it's a slow process but I'd love ro add a little zip to my pics!
I follow you via GFC
wow, i love her textures, thank you for introducing me to her work. it's hard to pick a fave, but i am going with desert canvas for now :)
i follow you!
following pixel dust!
I used a pixel dust texture and blogged about it! (can you tell i like this giveaway?)
thanks for doing this giveaway. tweeted!
I love both the "before" and "after" photos, Nancy.
I love your hollyhock photo Nancy! it's delicious. I don't use textures, so I'll pass on the giveaway, but thanks very much for hosting Your Sunday Best! and have a great week.
Your photo transformation of the beautiful hollyhock is amazing - I love it. I also like to work with textures, and I'm going to check out Bonnie's site right now.
Hi Nancy, This is the first time I have visited your blog - beautiful with lovely photos! And what timing...for a giveaway! I checked out the free textures on Bonnie's site (too many beautiful ones to pick a favorite - maybe vintage blues) I used 4 of them for my photo, which I posted on my site (with a link back to you) and added to the Sunday Best Challenge link. Thanks for the chance to win!
Number 31!! The truck of my dreams! To bad one would totally die in Texas without AC in a vehicle. Otherwise I would be driving a redone old truck like that! Very cool!
Bonnie's textures are awesome! I'd like to be in that giveaway! My favorite of her free textures is "Vintage Blues 1".
I am already a follower of your blog!
I'm also a follower of Bonnie's blog!
And finally I blogged about a photo with Bonnie-texture and added it to Mr. Linky.... Quite late, I know. This was fun!
Beautiful photo & texture. What a great giveaway!
I'm a proud follower of A Rural Journal.
I'm following Pixel Dust!
:)
Oh! I looove your edit! Her textures are very dramatic! I think I like PDPA Renaissance Texture best! :)
I follow you on GFC :)
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