{"id":324,"date":"2014-04-12T18:49:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T18:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=324"},"modified":"2014-04-12T18:49:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T18:49:12","slug":"white-pansey-with-texture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"White Pansey with texture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pansies are one of my favorite flowers.\u00a0 While I like to try to fill the frame in my flower images it is a little hard to do with a pansy without losing something important.\u00a0 It seems that adding textured backgrounds to flower images is all the rage these days so I thought I would give it a try.\u00a0 First I took the image into Nik Color Efex Pro and brightened it up and added detail.\u00a0 Then back in Photoshop I took one of my recently purchased French Kiss textures and adjusted the color to fit my image using a Hue\/Saturation slider.\u00a0 I think I took the saturation down a little too for a more subtle look. I sometime also add a Gaussian blur when I just want color in the background but no texture…can’t remember if I did on this one.\u00a0 Once the texture looked right for the background I brought it into the pansy image as a layer.\u00a0 Then I cycled through the blend modes until I found a look I liked.\u00a0 Finally, I added a layer mask and masked out the texture area overlapping the flower. In this case the blend mode brought back some of the yellow flower in the lower left so I used content aware fill to get rid of it.\u00a0 And voila, a nice flower portrait with an uncluttered background.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before After Pansies are one of my favorite flowers.\u00a0 While I like to try to fill the frame in my flower images it is a little hard to do with a pansy without losing something important.\u00a0 It seems that adding textured backgrounds to flower images is all the rage these days so I thought I… Continue reading White Pansey with texture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4,10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-macro","category-nature","category-nik","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeannehoadley.com\/Photo13\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}