Life through a lens - GIMP and textures

OK OK I know I said I'd get back to art projects but ... well I'm just enjoying posting some of my photos but also these last two days I've been playing about with some old photos using GIMP. I wanted to experiment with textures. Luckily there are many kind and generous people around and I found one such on flickr who if you don't use it for commercial purposes and credit back to them the use of their texture/s is happy for you to use them. Please check out their photostream ground*floor

The photo I used is one I took in February 2009, here is it in its original form:



The I used picnik to change the colour tone to add a cross processing feel to it, boy I love that effect.




And today I edited the original and added the borrowed texture from ground*floor, then I headed over to picnik to add a bit more to the shot and came up with this.



I wanted to have a bit of a timeless ghost feel to it, not sure if I succeeded but I think I kind of like it.

What do you think?

Life through a lens AND Art Project - Fun With Photos

Most of my photos I host at flickr, such a wonderful site. Through this you can find links to other photo editing sites like Picnik or the other one I like which is Big Huge Labs to name a few. You can have lots of fun there. Here's some that I have had.










There are lots more you can do but these are some of my favourites.