Here's the before:
And here's the after:
Here's what I did: I made two duplicates of the background layer,and set the blending mode on the first one to soft light, and the second one at screen. Then I added Kim's "silent night texture" and set that blending mode to soft light as well. Then I duplicated the texture and turned the opacity of the second texture layer to 30%.
I LOVE how this turned out. What do you think?
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oh, i love this ecourse, too! this before and after is awesome!
ReplyDeleteWow! Thats amazing! I NEED to learn how to work that kind of magic.
ReplyDeleteGreat job!
This really looks fantastic! So old-timey, Little House On The Prairie Christmas Special-y. Love.
ReplyDeleteYou are too fancy for me but i love it! :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this edit..the texture is awesome!
ReplyDeleteThe texture helps hide any noise that would be there and it looks great!
ReplyDeleteGreat job!!!I took that class in November and I'm shocked how much I use the soft light/screen blending modes now :)
ReplyDeletethat looks really cool! i know nothing about textures... how do you do them without downloaded actions?
ReplyDeleteWow - that's so beautiful. I love the after!
ReplyDeleteYou gave it that Christmas Magic look!
ReplyDeleteVery pretty - it looks almost surreal!
ReplyDeleteLove the tree -- looks magical! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely edit!
ReplyDeleteI love how your edits turned out.
ReplyDeletewow the edit really makes a huge difference. such a lovely tree. i love that i can see all of the red on the tree now.
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