Digital BW, The Print

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@y..., Colin & Linda McKie 
<colinmckie@x> wrote:
> Mark,
> 
> We've got very similar texture effects by scanning various types 
of
> paper in transparency mode and layering them into pictures 
with varying
> opacity and blend modes. You could be doing something 
similar with a
> photo of a roughly painted wall or something else with an 
interesting
> texture.
> 
> How's that?

COLIN AND LINDA, COME ON DOWN! You're our grand prize 
winner!

1. Photograph rusted steel sheets. Or textured wall. Or anything 
that you like the texture/look.

2. Open your original image.

3. Paste the rusted wall photograph into a new layer on top of the 
original photo.

4. In the layer modes, choose either OVERLAY, or SCREEN, or 
SOFTLIGHT, with the layer of the rusted wall.

5. Drop the rusted wall layer back to about 50% opacity.

6. Go down thru the list of layer modes, and look at the effect that 
each one has on the look. Every single photograph responds 
radically differently, depending on its content.

7. (For Advanced users: change levels and/or Curves of the 
rusted wall photo to change the attitude and intensity. Or, erase 
portions of the rusted wall layer if it messes with the image in a 
bad way. Or run Gaussian Blur on rusted wall layer if the texture 
is too sharp, even when opacity is dropped back).

-MT