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Texture experiment #152

Texture test

I’ve long been interested in finding a way to get that messy edge similar to what you see on Polaroid transfers but I want to achieve it in Photoshop and in a way that I can easily reproduce it without having to go through too many steps. Today I revisited this project and moved a little closer to my goal. Through the use of various texture shots I’ve collected over the years, masks made with rough-edged brushes and a liberal use of layer blend modes, I can now drop any image into this Photoshop document and it will give the above result with minor tweaking.

It’s still not entirely what I was shooting for. I wasn’t initially going for the overall aged look — I just wanted the edge. But, to my eye, the edge fit better when I textured the entire image. I’ll keep playing with it. Every attempt comes closer…

Polaroid’s portable printer

Polaroid portable printerPolaroid has a new portable printer coming out that looks interesting. The Digital Instant Mobile Photo Printer (really, guys… couldn’t come up with a catchier name?) uses ZINK, or “zero ink”, technology where the dyes are embedded in the paper. At less than 3″ x 5″ and no more than an inch thick it would take up almost no space in the bag. And you can peel the backs off the prints and use them as stickers.

One use comes to mind immediately. I work with a stock agency that likes to have photos attached to model releases. Imagine being able to stick a photo of the subject onto a model release in the field. No more making notes on the release like “brown hair with blue shirt” to help me organize my paperwork and photos when I get home from a shoot.

We’ll see where the price falls — and the price of the paper — but it has potential.

And I know this has been making its way around the internet but I feel compelled to share this hilarious Photoshop tutorial titled “You Sujck at Photoshop”.