Thousands of people have downloaded the FREE Texture Applicator Photoshop Actions Set since its release just over a month ago. But now there’s another reason to celebrate! Finally, a video tutorial teaching you how to use this photoshop action to add textures to your photos. Sometimes texture is just too much for skin, so I will also teach you how to mask off texture from selective parts of the image.

To use this action you will want to find some great textures. You can also download the one used in this video made by Jessica Drossin Photography.

Thank you to Heather Armstrong and Lisa Gilbert Photography for allowing me to use their beautiful photos in this video.

Thank you to all my loyal Blog readers, friends and fans.  I appreciate each and every one of you.  To show my appreciation, I love making a FREE Photoshop action to share every year at the holidays.

This year my Free action set is called Texture Applicator. You can go here to download it. All I would ask in return is that you spread the Holiday spirit by posting to twitter, facebook, a photo forum or on your blog about it.

This action easily allows you to select the texture you desire and place it over any photo. At just a few clicks of a button, you are able to apply different textures to your image until you find the right one. Once you discover the one you want to work with, you are then able to play with the many looks you can achieve with that select texture. And as always, your texture is its own layer mask so you have full control of where and how much texture is applied to the image. Of special note, this action works in CS2, CS3 and CS4 and also works in Photoshop Elements!

Photo taken by Misty Deblasio Photography

Have a safe and Happy Holidays!

Jodi

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month so this Blueprint is dedicated to fighting Breast Cancer.  I created the “Take Action on Cancer Awareness” action set when my father-in-law was diagnosed with stage 4 Lymphoma a few years ago.  He is a survivor now of both Colon Cancer and Lymphoma.  My Grandmother, Joan, who I was named after, died in her early 40’s from Breast Cancer. I sadly never got to meet her.

If you have never downloaded this action set that I created in 2007 (which works in PS CS, CS2, CS3 and CS4), please download it HERE or on my website under “try me.” This action creates a rich , adjustable black and white action and includes 14 color overlays each representing a ribbon color to fight a certain type of cancer.

I created this action from the heart and it is free.  I just ask two things:

1. Please use the sharing buttons at the bottom of the post to spread the word on Facebook, Twitter, and other social media. You may blog about this too – just link here for the download (you may not host it on your site).
2. Please consider donating time or money either now or in the future to an organization that works to promote awareness and to find cures for cancer.

In this Blueprint below I took straight out of camera images (thank you to those who send these in) and ONLY ran the Take Action on Cancer Awareness action with the Pink Ribbon to fight Breast Cancer layer turned on.