People! I got out of the house. Not just out of the house, but out of the house & across the border! I cannot begin to tell you how awesome OUT felt. I’m a travelbug. I have The Wanderlust. This virus has been slowly chipping away at me. I’ve been losing pieces of myself.
Now, I’m back! It felt wonderful. Hopefully it was safe. Both our numbers here in Germany, and in Provence are low. Almost no new cases of COVID. We washed our hands like crazy, wore masks like bandits & hugged no one. Plus, really, all we did was wander fields of lavender. It is even more beautiful in person than in any photo.
Enough about me, let’s talk scrapbooking! I took enough pictures to fill two memory cards. Obviously not all of them are great. But. They are still amazing. I mean, they are of lavender fields. In Provence! I can’t just delete them.
Here’s where Blended Backgrounds come in handy. I’ve decided to use one of my bad pictures, and make it part of the background of my layout. This is my bad picture:
I think using a wooden texture will be perfect for blending with this photo. I’ve taken another photo I took, and turned it into a texture (see freebie below).
I simply slide my bad photo in the layer above my texture & play with the blend modes in photoshop. The light/dark/bright in your photo will change the outcome of the effect of the blend mode. I decided Overlay Blend Mode worked best with my bad photo:
Bad photo + wood texture = amazing background! I’m pretty darn happy. I’m already scrapping my page, taking one of my favorite photo’s of Tess this weekend.
I’m going to go finish my layout. For those of you itching to try this technique, please download my free Wood Texture & play away!
Merci pour cette jolie texture
Love this one Toiny many thanks – Lavendar is one of my fav plants and fragrance, I guess it shows my age – lol.
Thanks!
I’ll bet the scent of those fields was even more amazing than the view, thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much
I love the wood background papers — thanks for sharing the wood texture. I love how your background turned out; lavender fields are lovely!!
I love lavender, too, as a fragrance, as a color, as a photo! Great tip on using the “bad” photos, and thanks for the wood texture.
Beautiful blending! thank you so much for the texture and the tutorial
What a beautiful way to use a not so perfect photo.
Thank you Toiny, I would do anything to walk through a lavendar field like that, next season here in Christchurch NZ, my daughter and I are intending to do just this, we were took late this season as the weather turned and it became too wet and they closed the fields to the public. Great technique.
Thank you so much Toiny