Vintage Border and Texture
This week’s Friday Freebie is a vintage border and texture combined into one. It’s a warm tone texture that combines staining and aging with a custom made distressed black edged border. The texture is actually the inside leaf of a very old and rather battered book that Sam picked up at a boot sale. All the blank pages have this amazing textured appearance and I’ll be sharing more of them as Friday freebies soon.
Full download instructions are below but you can also
Click Here To Download the vintage border & texture
As with all textures it works best with photos that have large areas of bright tones such as this one which has loads of bright sky. All you need to do is paste the texture above your photo and set the blending mode. There are loads of different layer blending modes and they’ll all give a different look but I’d suggest Multiply as the best mode to try first.
This is a fairly dark texture and the Multiply blending mode will also make the image less bright. Once you’ve added the texture I’d suggest adding a Levels adjustment layer to either your photo or at the top of the layer stack and moving the middle levels slider to adjust the overall brightness… if required.
If you create a photo using the Friday Freebie then let me (and everyone else) know by leaving the link in the comments below.
Usage rules
The image is copyright Gavin Hoey 2013. Use is limited to any personal, non-commercial purposes. Please share the Friday Freebie by linking back to this page. Do not redistribute the original image without my permission.
Download instructions
Click the link https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Mmmm3K1utNaTlfSUdvSjB1b0U/view?usp=sharing
1. Click the Download button
2. The download should start automatically
Thanks Gavin
Cheers, my dear!!
This came out great matey. You’ve even shaved a few pounds off me I’m sure 😉
Thank You … much appreciated!
another wonderful article Gavin,
here’s a link to my 2nd day at using textures ..
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=593172864080264&set=a.383012998429586.88042.381338421930377&type=1&theater
i must say yours is by far the best i’ve downloaded, don’t you have a donation box so i could use it and still credit you?
keep up the superb work
Adrian
thanks Gavin tried and loved it.
Thanks for the freebie Gavin; take a look at my first effort:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88409432@N06/10313918585/
Cheers
Pete
Great stuff Pete 🙂
I really like what you do and how you do it. Here’s my effort at a composite of one of your photo’s with some of your Friday Freebies included. I call it “Gav’s Train.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o542azfcwvkkjk0/GavTrain%20%28out%20of%20bounds%20with%20Freebies%20and%20Vintage%20film%29.tif
One more Gavin; thought this was a good subject matter for your vintage border and texture. Thanks again Pete
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88409432@N06/10344518985/
Another two examples using this very useful layer; many thanks:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88409432@N06/12795236905/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/88409432@N06/12779459373/in/photostream/
Cheers
Pete
G’day Gavin
Thank you very much for the freebie, Gavin.
You are great teacher and your ideas, Freebies are inspiring.
Please, take a look on my efforts :
https://plus.google.com/photos/103026119867456729185/albums/6035595208956963441/6035601642324545794?banner=pwa&pid=6035601642324545794&oid=103026119867456729185
https://plus.google.com/photos/103026119867456729185/albums/6035595208956963441/6035748235382774946?banner=pwa&pid=6035748235382774946&oid=103026119867456729185
https://plus.google.com/photos/103026119867456729185/albums/6035595208956963441/6035753026480504994?banner=pwa&pid=6035753026480504994&oid=103026119867456729185
Hi Gary!
Thanks a lot for this freebie! I have used this for two photos with remains from WW2 to give them this vintage mood:
https://500px.com/photo/167305221/tanks-barring-from-ww2-by-terje-helberg
https://500px.com/photo/167306545/-mine-field-sign-from-ww2-by-terje-helberg
Best regards
Terje