Elizabeth Halford Photography {the blog} » photography {in real.plain.english}

Masthead header

Free Damask Texture

February 11, 2010 Posted in Freebies {actions, presets & templates}, Textures, Actions & Presets

A few weeks ago, I used this free damask texture layer to replace the wall in the image above. They come in many different colours, too! Enjoy!

  • http://nahnen.blogspot.com Nichole

    that is very neat! thanks for sharing!

  • Kamila

    Fantastic! Delicate, gentle, seamless addition to the image.

  • Karen

    Beautiful……forgive my ignorance but how do you import this into the original image?

  • elizabethhalford

    @Karen: well, first I use the quick selection tool (in Photoshop) to select all around the girl and once the selection is perfect, I do ctrl+j to make it into a new layer. Then you can edit the background without affecting the foreground. If you want to know more about this sort of process, you can check out this tutorial I did in great detail about separating your image into layers for editing: http://www.elizabethhalford.com/2010/01/19/how-i-did-it-tuesday/

  • karen

    Thank you, so helpful. How I wish I had found your site before my PSE 30 day trial expired…..

  • elizabethhalford

    Karen, you could download other PS trials.

  • Leilani

    I had tried using textures and wallpapers before but never really been inspired or amazed by the results but when Elizabeth posted this, I thought ‘Oh I have to have a go at that!’.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/16556551@N03/4354364700/

    It was alot of fun. I recommend for anyone to try!
B e   S o c i a l
S u b s c r i b e
M o r e   F r i e n d s