Critique Welcomed Completely new to this

[Rense Haveman]

All over the internet you'll find photographs with added textures: clouds, scratches, paper sheets, wood, you name it and it's there. I never tried it, but there are real artists out there using this technique. Well, I installed the free GIMP software yesterday, shot me some textures (and exported several other ones from my LR-database), and tried it on an old photo from Ireland's coast. Please, feel free to shoot, give tips, speak out your disgust, etc.


Experiment by Rense Haveman, on Flickr

 

[Pete Askew]

These textures can be interesting and effective and this one looks goo on screen. However, I think the patten is too large for the 'scale' of the image.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Thank you, Pete! I am sorry, here my English is not enough. I understand the 'scale of the image' but can you explain the 'pattern is to large' part, please? I guess it's about the fabric texture, which is the most obvious (the clouds are an added layer too, as is some wood structure which is hardly visible). I can't relate to the 'large' however, so I do not quite understand what you mean.

 

[Pete Askew]

Yes, I find the weave of the 'textile' too coarse for the image.

 

[Rense Haveman]

Yes, I find the weave of the 'textile' too coarse for the image.

Thank you, clear! It's the sofa I'm sitting on right now

 

[Dave Farnes]

That is an interesting effect, worth experimenting with. Would it look better wuth a harder texture? Maybe a woodgrain or stone texture would go better with the hard rocks, textile is a bit too soft.