This piece of barn wood came from the former Balzac Garden Centre. Yes, it's true. I can't let it go that some mega mall has overrun the Balzac corner!
Anyhow, back to the task at hand. How is this done? This image has three layers. The barn wood, the canola field with the grain bins, and a sky shot with some clouds. I wanted the result to look like it was painted on the barn wood and weathered. It's the sort of idea you might see at a country fair. Distressed farm chic.
Here also are screen grabs of my Layers and my Blending Options for the top layer, which is the canola field. I used Multiply as my Blending Mode. I fiddled with the Blend If sliders for all the layers until I got the desired result. The Blend If sliders allow for a certain amount of transparency between layers as well as a way for things to "disappear" into the wood work. This is hard to explain without a video demo (and lots of other people have made them), but it's fun to experiment with. That's the best way to figure it out really. So go ahead, grab a couple of images and blend up something interesting. And . . . see you at the next Balzac Country Fair!
P.S. If this page layout looks all wonky when you view this post, re-size your browser window a bit smaller so all the images line up on the left hand side. Multiple photos tend to mess up the Blogger layouts.
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