Working With Textures

Yesterday, Gary and I took a ride all the way to the end of Nanticoke Road .... to the place where dry ground turns into the Nanticoke River.   Along the way, I captured this farm scene ... loved the windmill.   I haven't done much work with textures but decided to give it a try on this edit.   

First of all, here is the original photo, badly overexposed ...
(click on photos to enlarge)

and here is the photo, edited in Topaz Adjust 4 and Nik Color Efex 3

then I added this texture ....

blended it once in "screen" mode at about 30% and then a second time in "hard light" mode at about 30% and then softly erased the texture from the buildings, with the eraser set at 5% opacity ... and this is the final edit with texture

My daughter-in-law, Cole, does the most outstanding work with textures ... her photos are always so stunning ... here are two of her more recent edits ...

To see more of her beautiful work, visit her at

http://www.flickr.com/photos/43296035@N05/

There are many, many wonderful FREE textures available on Flickr ... just do a search under "free textures".  You'll be amazed.