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All materials are copyright 2024 @ Heather Michelle Chinn and may not be shared, distributed, re-packaged, sold, or handed out without expressed, written permission from Heather Michelle Chinn. While these may be used in your edited, flattened files for your photographic edits, they may not be submitted to your photography (or ANY) clients as layered files. These backgrounds, or other content, (in whole or in part) may NOT be sold, distributed, or used as a base to create variations or "new" backgrounds in any manner to be printed or sold to background companies without expressed, written permission from Heather Michelle Chinn at Heather@HeatherThePainter.com

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The Backgrounds and Backgrounds Collections may be used as layers, or textures while editing your artwork for both commercial (ie: photography studio needing to change a backdrop in their portrait subject's edit) and personal use. The backgrounds/textures may not be (modified or not) shared, repackaged, resold, copied, or redistributed in any way to be distributed as backgrounds/backdrops/textures for re-sale or distribution. This is agreed upon download. Backgrounds may not be sold, licensed, or distributed in a way that permits Licensee’s end users to extra or access the backgrounds as a stand alone file or PRINTED. Each purchase is copyright protected and only available for a single user. All backgrounds remain property of Heather Michelle Chinn.

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BACKGROUNDS AND TEXTURES

For backgrounds and textures downloads, please see User Agreement above or on the store for terms of use. For some ideas on how to use the backgrounds and textures please visit (and subscribe!) to Heather's Youtube channel and blog here:

https://www.heatherthepainter.com/blog/how-to-creatively-use-textures-as-clipping-masks

https://www.heatherthepainter.com/blog/2

https://www.heatherthepainter.com/blog/a-variety-of-outcomes-with-one-background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej4pVVp0cg8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzTIUKn35Y

NEW in 2024

Introducing the Kelly Marie Dobson Curated Collection

Take a breath. Grab a tea. This is gonna be a long read.

The incredible artist Kelly Marie Dobson recently paired up with designer Heather the Painter to curate the Kelly Marie Dobson Curated Collection featuring hand painted, fine art designs. Use them as full background swaps, digital texture overlays, or even as bases in your digital paintings. The sky is the limit!

This immense collection includes (that's 397 textures/backgrounds!):

Passages Master Collection

#186 backgrounds

"Full Length" (includes 36 files)

"Neutral_Solos" (includes 8 files)

"Blue_Solos" (includes 21 files)

"Warm_Solos" (includes 24 files)

"Lilac_Solos" (includes 19 files)

Reference guides 8.5" x11" (10 files)

Plus the Passages 2023 Download

71 backgrounds

7 Ochre Bonus

9 reference guides

Plus

1 - Farewell Summer #50 + reference guides

1 - Summer Greige #32 + reference guides

1 - Watermelon and Iced tea #49 + reference guides

1 - Stamped in Humidity #8 + reference guides

1 - Summer Gold #31 + reference guides

1 - Summer BONUS #17 + reference guides

(another 194 backgrounds!)

1 - TheKellyBONUS zipped file (The Sabrina, 3 BONUS and plus 3 un-released monochrome textures) = #7 backgrounds!

This is a grand total of 386 high resolution, painterly designed, hand worked backgrounds and textures that derive from organic brushwork starting with REAL paint!

Portrait and artistic edit by Kelly Marie Dobson using these backgrounds and textures (not included with the download)

Passages Master Collection

The culmination of years of custom brushes, custom textures to create these breath-taking backgrounds is finally available for immediate access. Heather took some of her favorite past backgrounds and studied them re-painting them ENTIRELY on a grand scale trying the new "DUO" layout. These are perfect for full length edits, or you can crop into them (try the top, mid section or bottom!) plus various "solo" edits. The depth and transparency of the brushwork is a mixture of the original Passages meets Meet Me in the Garden meets the original Greige and Moody. Heather has pushed her own boundaries in this Master Collection and is pleased with its outcome! A few of the "full length" crops have a minimum side sized at 5471 pixels but the majority are sized at 9600x18000 pixels - IDEAL for the large portrait edit! The solos have a minimum edge sized at 5471 pixels. These were proudly hand painted, person crafted, and not created by an AI generator.

Fast track your portrait or painterly editing with these sophisticated backgrounds or overlay them as textures using software such as Adobe Photoshop within seconds.

With multiple palettes, you'll have something for absolutely every skin tone and ALL of the moods! Many times you'll come across beautiful compositions or textures in background offerings but they fall flat when it comes to color theory. That's not the case with this masterfully curated collection!

Funny story, Heather had always wanted to create a Master collection using the term Passages and found inspiration from the 2023 Collection. However, this 2024 Collection has new paintings AND also includes the Passages 2023 to clear up any confusion (sorry).

The painterly edges may be softened with a quick gaussian blur (Photoshop) for extra bokeh in your portrait edit or left for a painterly edit.

The downloads are large, so it is ideal to download to your work computer versus a phone!

Shown below are the 2024 Passages reference guides, samples and details. Please note the portrait samples are not included with purchase.

Here are just a handful of full lengths used as quick overlays using Photoshop.

Full lengths

Details

The retired Summer Master Collection

What you'll get:

Summer Gold Collection (31 backgrounds)
Farewell Summer Collection (50 backgrounds)
Summer Greige (32 backgrounds)
Watermelon & Iced Tea (49 backgrounds)
Stamped in Humidity (8 backgrounds)
August Hot & Hazy (7 backgrounds)
SUMMER BONUS 2023 (17 exclusive backgrounds!) - Scroll to the bottom to view these gorgeous new additions!
reference guides printable to 8.5" x 11" with each pack

The retired Summer Master Collection totals 194 high resolution painted (digital) backgrounds!

These exquisitely layered backgrounds are a must have for your digital toolbox. They're immediately usable as layered textures, full background swaps, painting clone sources, or even as monochromatic textures for programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter. Change the colors to strengthen your color harmony or add bokeh be using your favorite blur. The versatility ranges from heavily brayered wax to dreamy bokeh-ed abstract scapes.

Photo references do not come with download.

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The master collection was originally released August 28, 2023

Here are some details from the Master Collection and examples how they were used.