Portrait photography tip: Add texture to your background
Thursday 17 March 2022, 20:10 by Elja Trum | 3,584 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
You don't always need to have a perfect background. You can also choose to shoot your photos against a neutral background and then add a texture in Photoshop in just a few minutes.
It can be useful to take a quick photo of every nice wall or texture you come across.
In Photoshop, you can then place it behind your photo, on the layer underneath, and use a blending mode to easily bring it back into your photo. Reduce the opacity of your texture layer to make the effect less intense.
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Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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1 comment
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Robert wrote on Tuesday 22 March 2022 at 16:14 | replyDon't place your model too close to the background. A very common 'mistake'.
Translated from Dutch.
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