distressed /scratched film effect

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Aug 24, 2005
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I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?

Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
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Hecate
Aug 24, 2005
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 16:10:43 -0400, "frankg"
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I posted this under a different heading without luck.
Actually you got two answers that I can see.



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noone
Aug 25, 2005
In article <Qu4Pe.388$
says…
I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
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The ones that I looked at, seemed to have a reticulated pattern on them, and the lower-key contrast and desaturation of color of the photo helped the look. I’ve got several "reticulation" pattern filters, most from Andromeda, but I’m not sure what was used here. Also, a Layer with fill, then reticulation, and Opacity change, plus Blending Mode (maybe Lighten, or Soft Light) could well have been used. If Reticulation is not handy, one might try Noise>Add Noise.

Just thinking,
Hunt
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JJ
Aug 25, 2005
Why don’t you mail him….and ask him?

JJ

"frankg" wrote in message
I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer
mask
is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
F

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Cyli
Aug 25, 2005
On 25 Aug 2005 03:02:15 GMT, (Hunt) wrote:

In article <Qu4Pe.388$
says…
I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?

Some ideas, which I can’t articulate and haven’t tried. Mostly doing an effect and then fading it a lot, but that doesn’t account for the webbing stuff, unless one did it really dark and faded one heck of a lot. Otherwise some nearly transparent watercolour washes could do a lot of the subtle colour variations. Especially if done with a sponge brush. The specks could be selections done with noise added.

Or the painfully simple way for some that has already been suggested. He printed them and then crunched them in dirt or wet them somewhat and then did the watercolour trick of tossing on some salt.

Some look as if they’ve been reduced to sepia and then had washes painted over.

But thank you for giving his URL. I like his work.

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Henri
Aug 27, 2005
frankg wrote:
I posted this under a different heading without luck.

This photographer seems to have layered a texture over his photos – any ideas what he’s used for the texture and/or how its done?
Look at the sky (clear) areas of some of the photos in particular. http://www.marktucker.com/r_saltonsea/intro.html

It seems to cover the background layer/photo evenly, so I doubt a layer mask is used to paint it in/out.
I’ve tried placing one photo(of a textured wall) on top of another (background layer) and changing the blending
mode and opacity but I cant even come close.

Maybe it’s a plug-in?

thanks
F
probably a mix of filters and layered textures



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