Post 28- Textured Overlays and Composite Images

Last week at Ockbrook Photo Club we had a talk from Heather Burns. Heather is an image maker who uses blending techniques in Photoshop to produce composite images that defy description. She is entirely self taught.

She is very modest about her skills but the creativity she demonstrates in her work is of the very highest order. She started out photographing musicians and many of her images have been used on album and CD covers and it is here that she started to build her Photoshop skills. Her talent was further developed and refined as part of the mentoring programme in the Guild of Photographers and as part of the Guild has received two Master Craftsmen Awards.
She believes that the only limit to the scope of these technique is the image makers imagination.

I was so impressed with the basic simplicity of the technique that I have been using it to produce simple, two layer, effects, some of which I have shown below.

Although I have mastered the basic techniques it remains to  be seen if I can develop additional skills and use these and my imagination to produce more complex works.

I have been playing with these techniques for a couple of days and am now able to add new elements to the images. I am quite pleased with the results.