mucking about with textures

[julie]

hoping for a threatening feel

[Tildy]

I, for one, welcome our new spherical overlords

[artmar]

You might consider using a different, or no, texture on the steel girders than the one used for the sky. I think allowing the texture to cover both background and foreground gives the image a more prominent "applied texture" effect and also reduces depth.
What do you think?

Art

[julie]

It's a very good point. I will get onto it today
Julie

[Tildy]

I would think that, if you do that, the sky texture would need to be brought out a bit.

[julie]

hi
the sky texture is already at 100 percent so I am not sure how to do that
maybe a different blend mode
the other difficulty I might have is that the sky filter is also over the sphere
I think this is not an image i love enough to keep going

I have tried two different things here
I took the filter off the girders but thought at first glance they looked a bit bare
so I added another filter just to them
Now I am not sure which I prefer

[artmar]

You can enhance the texture in a number of ways -- easiest, for me, is in Perfect Effects: HDR effect, Dynamic Contrast. (first image)

I also like, in PS, Filter Gallery, Grain - Speckle for this one (second image).