digital experiments-texture overlays

I have been experimenting with putting textured overlays on some of my photos. These are my very first attempts:

This one of a fennel plant silhouetted against the sky uses one of Jill’s photos of a piece of her fabric weaving. I love this photo and have a feeling it’s going to be used lots more times! Two versions of the same gardenia photo

This one has been overlaid with a photo of a Cambodian stone frieze

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his one has been overlaid with a wooden door texture

yellow hibiscus with a sanskrit text overlay

white frangipani with a white nylon fishing line overlay

and last but not least the ceramic jar was very colourful but I was interested to see what effect the overlay would have At this stage I haven’t tried to do anything more complicated than overlay a single texture over the top of a photograph. Experiments with changing opacity, etc. may come later but it has taken me ages to do this successfully. I found a very good tutorial at the studioCalico. I would point out that rather than “open” both photos I used the “file>place” function for the photo of the texture. I used PSE8 for this.