NKM photos: I dream in Textures

Another week has gone by and another fabulous texture found its way to my collection by way of Kim Klassen's Texture Tuesday email. This time I have two pictures that I think work well with this new texture called Dream.
The first picture is of a Seagull, which I had already been working on with other textures. The dream texture just seemed like the icing on the cake. Hmmm, cake. Sorry, I got temporarily distracted. Speaking of cake, I made some yummy cake pops this weekend. You can see pictures and how-to's on my personal blog (not that this blog isn't personal, but more photography oriented, where my personal blog is, well...personal, you know?)
Anyway, back to textures. Here is the Seagull--if you hover your mouse over the picture, you'll see the original.

Here is a screen-shot of the layers and settings for this image. I used the dream and grannyscupboard textures as well as a lovely overlay from Vera Lim:
Seagull layers

And 'cause it was so much fun, I had to do another one. What do you think?

I was going to put the layer screen-shot here as well, but it turned out to be quite long. Let me know in your comments if you'd like to see it and I'll try to stitch it together from multiple screen-shots.
Make sure you stop by the Texture Tuesday Page and check out all the beautiful entries.

5 awesome comments:

Pat Mark, July 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM: The seagull photo is a work of art. Very well done.
Kim Klassen, July 28, 2011 at 8:48 AM: oh my gosh.... this is just so beautiful........ thank you for linking up to TT.

xxo, kim
sandy , July 28, 2011 at 2:42 PM: Oh wow, I love these! Thanks for letting us know how you did them too!!
lissa, July 28, 2011 at 5:24 PM: wow! I think the bird pic is so wonderfully done. especially compare with the original. nice job. as for the beach shot, it's nostalgic and also works great with the textures.
Cathy Spivey Mendola, July 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM: Both photos are absolutelly gorgeous! I can't decide which is my fave.
Great editing.