I have seen a few images lately, both at my local camera club, and also online, where people have added “artistry” to an images by blending in unrelated images as layers and then editing the results in Photoshop.
I have been living with this image of Idsworth Church on my photo frame for a while;
I liked it but kept thinking that it needed something more. So I thought I’d give this artistic idea a go.
I found another image of a completely different landscape and blurred it with gaussian blue and desaturated it a bit (thanks YouTube) and used that as the first texture. Then I took an image of a rough textured painted wall and added that as a texture too. Over to Luminar to add a light ray and then back to PhotoShop to blend that in. Final tweaks in Nik ColorEfex and here it is.
Hope you like it.