If you wanna blend with textures, you’ll first need to learn the basics of blending. As I’ve already explained this in my first tutorial, I’ll skip these steps, however, the basics are the same, so you’ll see it’s rather easy if you already know how to do this.

First: open the picture you want to use as your background. (if necessary, crop it and make it the right size)



Now, open the texture you want to use as your first layer. You can either resize the texture if it’s too big (resize: go to ‘image’ > ‘image size’ and select the amount of pixels), or select only the part you want to use.

Example:



Use the basics of duplicating as explained in the previous tutorial: go to ‘image’ > ‘duplicate’. Adapt the settings for ‘gradient’: go to ‘filter’ > ‘color’ > ‘gradient’. (Color 1 should be black: select 100%. Color 2 should be white: again, select 100%) If it turns out while blending that the background is no longer visible due to the texture, select other settings for opacity, like 75%. Click Ok.

Adapt the amount of noise: ‘filter’ > ‘noise’ > ‘add noise’. The amount of noise should be 5: select the ‘uniform’ square. Copy the second layer.

Now go to the first layer you’ve chosen, and click ‘edit’ > ‘paste special’ > ‘assemble’. (assemble the clipboard data to the right) The black/white and first layer are now one picture: copy the result.

Go back to the background (the first picture you’ve chosen) and click: ‘image’ > ‘paste special’ > ‘paste with linked mask’.



If you want, you can move the layer within the borders of the background.

Now you might need to remove some of the textured layer, as it will cover your background. Use the ‘erase’ tool to do this, in the menu on your right.



Make sure you’ll only erase bits of the texture, and no the background! (so take care of the edges of the picture: you can use various erase tools to make the effect look nice, I personally always take one of the round ones – the square tools will always leave some edges)

Here’s the result:



Now merge the two layers, by clicking right on the first layer. Select: ‘merge with previous layer’. You can now edit your picture:



And that's all!

Thanks darling

Pleasure.

Please do note that if you want to use the erase tool, you'll need to work with PhotoFiltre studio, as the regular PhotoFiltre program doesn't have that tool.

In that case I'm glad I've downloaded PhotoFiltre studio

Ohh, another tutorial! I'll have to try this later. Thank you!

Have fun girls!

Philippa wrote:In that case I'm glad I've downloaded PhotoFiltre studio

But you're just using the trial then, aren't you? If so, let me know if you wanna use the full program without acces limit: I've got a code to crak the trial.

Nope, full version with crack and all, thanks to good ol' piratebay

Ah, PirateBay. Can I ask how you unpack the torrents after you've downloaded them? I used to do that with Vuze, but that takes really ages...

I use Bittorrent.

Alright, I'll need to give that one a try too... Thanks!

Go for it darling!!

I can't use PhotoFiltre anymore!
None of the options work. I can't click on any of the links in 'filter' or anything else. I don't know what to do. I didn't change any of the setting, it just stopped working

That is really strange! Maybe you did get the trial after all, because I really can't think of anything that stops PF from working... Have you tried reinstalling it?

No because I used it yesterday, one minute it worked, the next it didn't. And I'm 100% sure it's not a trial version. So I don't know what's wrong either..

Hm, that sounds really odd to me... I have no clue how to solve this actually, maybe you can try the helpdesk on the PF website?