Oh, hello! Are you familiar with Photoshop? Because after looking for literally HOURS on Etsy and on various poster/art sites for a something that looked like I wanted it to, I took one of my own photos and modified it with Adobe Photoshop Elements.
But the thing is, I don’t know what anything does. So I kept changing things and changing things until I was happy, and then when I tried to do the same thing to a higher-resolution copy of the same image, I couldn’t remember what I’d done, nor could I recreate it even after more than an hour of tinkering.
So if you know what you’re doing, perhaps you could tell me what I’M doing.
When you find out what YOU are doing will you teach the rest of us? Photoshop is an enigma.
I have no idea – but that is a totally cool picture. I’d like a copy of it for my wall please!
In Photoshop proper, I think it’s Filter -> Texture -> Texturizer. Not sure what the equivalent path is in Elements, but that info should help.
I do this exact same thing with Photoshop. I never know what I’m doing, so I just futz around until I like what I see.
Some full-version Photoshop tools that create similar results: Filter>Artistic>Underpainting, or Rough Pastels. Even closer results would be running
Filter>Artistic>Watercolor, tinkering to get the effect you want, then adding texture with Filter>Texturizer with the Texture set to Sandstone.
(Not totally sure how these features are presented in Elements.)
One thing to consider with the filters and textures- on your lower resolution image, the texture is going to appear more pronounced. Once you attempt to do similar things on the full-resolution version, you may find you can’t get as dramatic an effect without some serious filter adjustment (though if you zoom in on the high-res version you will see a texture.) To give you a visual- dimples on a golf ball are visible. The same-sized dimples on a beach ball, as viewed from a distance that makes the beachball appear golf-ball sized would not be visible. Does that make any sense at all? I stink at this describing photoshop stuff. :)
Oh! Jenn! Yes, that makes total sense! And it explains why I would remember using the sandstone texture and yet be unable to get the same thing on the bigger picture no matter how much I slid the little bars!
Love the picture! = sum total of my knowledge about photos.
I know this is supposed to be a no-no, but have you considered just adjusting the size and resolution of your low-res picture? This isn’t usually recommended because of blurring, etc., but if you’ve already got a texture and bunch of effects going it might not make much of a difference.
Love this picture. Reminds me of the places we visited when I went to Stanford last summer. Is that where they live?
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I don’t know what I’m doing and I don’t know what you did, but I love that photograph. Love. It.