How are these backgrounds achieved? (Page 3): If you want to substitute a digital painted texture for the background, this lady has lots of tutorials & some freebies, as well as plenty...

StaneeRae Loc: Lincroft, NJ USA

If you want to substitute a digital painted texture for the background, this lady has lots of tutorials & some freebies, as well as plenty of others for sale.
https://www.dailytexture.com/tutorials.html
https://www.dailytexture.com/store/c17/Free_Textures.html

Look through DesignCuts extensive freebies section for more textures & overlays.
https://www.designcuts.com/product-category/freebies/

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

LiamRowan wrote:

These are snags from an article named "11 Tips for Incredible Flower Photography for an iPhone." Any idea how the backgrounds are achieved?

Thanks for ideas. (Needless to say, the article did not address these!)

My grandson just got a new iPhone and was showing it to me.when you take the picture one of the options is to blur the background and you can blur it as little or as much as you want and you can change the color it's just all it is is options on your screen

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

Just want to thank all the posters since the previous thanking of all posters. Can't believe how much great stuff is here and at the links provided! Love UHH!!

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

What I did once was buy some daffodils and shoot them against a tall, wide Italian Cypress that is in my front yard. Shooting in closeup mode the dark limbs showed as just dark, but had plenty of light to see the daffodils clearly.

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

hassighedgehog wrote:

What I did once was buy some daffodils and shoot them against a tall, wide Italian Cypress that is in my front yard. Shooting in closeup mode the dark limbs showed as just dark, but had plenty of light to see the daffodils clearly.

Feel free to post a sample of that shoot.

hassighedgehog Loc: Corona, CA

Here is one of the Daffodil pictures.

(Download)

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

I played around with this lily image in PS using some of the ideas from the thread. Here's the first try. Thanks to UHH, I off on a new digital photo adventure!

(Download)

SuperflyTNT Loc: Manassas VA

LiamRowan wrote:

I played around with this lily image in PS using some of the ideas from the thread. Here's the first try. Thanks to UHH, I off on a new digital photo adventure!

It’s an interesting image, kind of dreamy and ethereal. I’d also like to see it with a little more contrast with the background to showcase the flower better.

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

SuperflyTNT wrote:

It’s an interesting image, kind of dreamy and ethereal. I’d also like to see it with a little more contrast with the background to showcase the flower better.

I'll give that a try tomorrow. I was going for monochromatic rose-ish.

mrmal Loc: Saskatoon, Sask, Canada

Any suggestions where I can obtain background textures, either free or at least a reasonable price. I have some from Skylum but not a lot of them are the type I prefer. Some of the textures shown on this topic above are very suitable for my tastes.

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

LiamRowan wrote:

I played around with this lily image in PS using some of the ideas from the thread. Here's the first try. Thanks to UHH, I off on a new digital photo adventure!

Love it!

Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington

mrmal wrote:

Any suggestions where I can obtain background textures, either free or at least a reasonable price. I have some from Skylum but not a lot of them are the type I prefer. Some of the textures shown on this topic above are very suitable for my tastes.

Here are two sites:
https://www.pexels.com/search/texture/
https://unsplash.com/search/photos/texture

Do a Google search for free textures; they are out there. PM me if there was one of mine of interest and I'll help you create it yourself or try to remember where I obtained it.

Also, pm me one of yours you don't like. Tell me why you don't and I'll see if I can edit

StaneeRae Loc: Lincroft, NJ USA

mrmal wrote:

Any suggestions where I can obtain background textures, either free or at least a reasonable price. I have some from Skylum but not a lot of them are the type I prefer. Some of the textures shown on this topic above are very suitable for my tastes.

All free.
https://www.dailytexture.com/store/c17/Free_Textures.html
https://www.designcuts.com/product/fine-art-and-vignette-texture-pack/
https://www.designcuts.com/product/fine-art-and-vignettetextures-and-japanese-characters-pack/
https://www.designcuts.com/product/fine-art-texture-pack/
https://www.designcuts.com/product/fine-art-masked-textures-pack/
https://www.designcuts.com/product/glass-plate-negative-textures/

https://www.designcuts.com/product/fine-art-damask-and-paper-textures-and-world-map-vectors-set/
https://www.designcuts.com/product/fine-art-and-paper-textures-microbrew-ornaments-font-and-anatomy-vectors-pack/
https://www.designcuts.com/product/damask-wood-vintage-and-fine-art-textures-pack/

LiamRowan Loc: Michigan

mrmal wrote:

Any suggestions where I can obtain background textures, either free or at least a reasonable price. I have some from Skylum but not a lot of them are the type I prefer. Some of the textures shown on this topic above are very suitable for my tastes.

Yes. See Stanee Rae's post in this thread (p3, top). The links lead to a site with 100s of textures for sale. Looks like they're about $4 each. BUT, note that the site makes a half dozen or so available for free. That link is also in Stanee Rae's post.

Well, shoot, I just saw Stanee Rae's 2nd post in this thread with many links. Sorry.

StaneeRae Loc: Lincroft, NJ USA

mrmal wrote:

Any suggestions where I can obtain background textures, either free or at least a reasonable price.