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I had another go but it was doing my head in so I gave up and had a go at some different ones. Its fun.

Looking at this shot now with the texture I think it looks a bit funny around the bottom, maybe I should have just brushed back his head and chest? Im only a novice? any thoughts?

Looks like fun, love the second shot!

Thats so cute, Charlie reminds me of Cooper when we first got lacy, sometimes Lacy would play so rough but Cooper was always the perfect gentleman. Its nice to have memories to look back on like that.

Jo before I got my D80 I was in our local camera shop, (camera house) and the sales guy was hell bent on selling me a Pentax, he knew his stuff too and convinced me enough to check out the Pentax, not sure what happened as I still went with Nikon. :laugh:

Nice ones, must have been the day for it!

I guess it's a bit like if you were a chef and you cooked a three course meal and someone else made the gravy. :laugh:

Not bitchy at all Jo. I wouldn't have the first clue about making my own. :laugh:

CM I started the texture thread as an ongoing one, you can start the square crop one since yours are so awesome! Then I'll be inspired to do one, oh I just did one in the texture thread! I'm on fire tonight! :laugh:

Yes you are so right, I had the opacity to high, it needed to be a bit more muted to suit the background. Thanks for the tips, I really appreciate them.

I wanna see some funky textures added!

CC, your funny! :laugh: but seriously it is hard till you know what your doing, once you do it a few times it gets easier. Some of the tutorials are so hard to follow and they go quick but the one I posted inthe first post is so super easy, if i can follow it anyone can. What I did was opened the video and PS at the same time and minimised the windows so I could do it at the same time, I had to pause the video a couple of times to keep up. :laugh:

I think I have worked it out, although It still bought up a little exclamation mark to say I couldn't do it, but it saved it as a jpeg and a psd. Think I have had enough tonight. :laugh: I'll look at it again tomorrow. One last one, thought it might have looked ok but looking at it now it looks kind of crappy!

I layed the texture over the top of the photo changed from normal to soft light added a mask and then brushed back the little girl, then just went to save as. How do I merge the layers?

Another one from me. I have what is going to seem like the stupidest question in the world, when I save a file from PS how do I get it to save as a jpeg?? It doesn't seem to give me the option, I was sure in the older version when I saved a file it just saved as a jpeg.

Annie, thats pretty!

Awesome, they are all totally awesome. Tess I am such a fan of your work, just beautiful!!

So would you say the first one is ok as far as focus goes?

they look so different! even the colour, thats crazy! I keep going between the first one here and my copy in LR and the one here looks brighter and yellower. :laugh:

the original uploaded to PB The reduced size uploaded for PB

No Jo I don't

possibly, I reduce the size but then does PB reduce more? Ill see if I can upload the full sized image to PB and compare them.

Yep, sharpen, clarity contrast, maybe I don't sharpen enough? Plus they look good in LR compared to here, does it make a difference that the file in LR is over 5mb and here it's under one, does that have a baring on what others see on their computers?

Thanks to Snook, I have discovered textures, there is so much funky cool stuff you can do with your photos with them. My first attempt, I choose this photo because I always liked the photo but the back ground was a bit washed out and looked ugly. THIS is the site Snook steered me to watch the tutorial on how to do textures in PS and there is also a Tutorial for PE as well. I have been googling free textures and there is so so many out there its amazing! Can't wait to add more to this thread and see what others come up with.