Hand Painted Backgrounds & Textural Overlays
A Long Time Passion For Creating Intriguing Supporting Space
Heather started at an early age painting large scale, canvas backgrounds with her professional portrait photographer mother in the studio and eventually created intricate 12' murals, backdrop sets, and elaborate ceiling panoramas. Her love for creating supportive atmosphere to a subject can be clearly seen in these background collections where the lighter parts are strategically placed when a subject would typically be placed within in a portrait. Maintaining harmonizing color balance that will suit most skin types, these backgrounds are an elegant finish to your digital edit!
Organically Painted Collections
Painted on traditional media such as watercolor papers, canvases, and boards, these have the natural appearance of organic media because they were literally created on real substrates!
Digitally Painted Collections
Digitally painted in Corel Painter using custom brushes (available in the store), Heather uses the illusion of light and depth to create interest and composition in her backgrounds.
Textural Overlays
These backgrounds are ideal to use as texture overlays instead of being used as a solo/drop in background when your edit requires a finishing touch of organic weave and paint appeal. A hint: layer these up with existing backgrounds for delicious textural goodness!
Flexible, Versatile, and Sophisticated
How Artists Are Using These Backgrounds
These digitized, high resolution jpegs are immediately available for download and have a plethora of options to use in software such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Corel Painter.
Use with a green screen setup
Alter the entire background by dropping in these backgrounds when using a green or blue screen setup.
Use in your own digital paintings
These backgrounds are wonderful clone sources, or drop ins for digital paintings (and photographic edits).
Classically Inspired with a Modern Twist
Training and Masking Resources
There is something for every level including Photoshop Guru Michelle Parsley's invaluable tutorials!
Backgrounds Users are Raving
"Have I mentioned lately how awesome these backgrounds are??? This was an 'outtake' photo from a session, and now it is my favorite from the session!"
- Brittney Gobble
http://sweetwatersavannahs.com/
