From the course: Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures
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Photographing your own textures
From the course: Photoshop: Backgrounds and Textures
Photographing your own textures
- [Instructor] Ever since I started working with textures, I keep my mind and eyes open for something that will work well as a texture overlay. It isn't necessarily a big deal to stop and capture a texture with my camera when I see it, and by now I have a pretty big library of textures that are uniquely my own. Nothing beats the thrill of finding one's own stunning texture and then being able to use it in one's work. After using textures for a while, you'll have a better sense of the kinds of subjects that make textures that you'll like to work with and are effective with your photographs. One key thing you should be looking for when you're thinking about textures is lack of dimensionality. In other words, three-dimensional subjects don't really make great textures most of the time, but two-dimensional subjects can. You're also looking for even lighting over the two-dimensional plane. This doesn't mean that your texture can't have lights and darks, sometimes lights and darks are very…
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