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All backgrounds, textures, overlays, and related digital content are the original intellectual property of Heather Michelle Chinn and are protected under United States and international copyright laws. Purchase grants you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, single-user license to use the materials in accordance with the terms below.

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PROHIBITED USES

You may not, under any circumstances:

Sell, share, gift, sublicense, or otherwise redistribute the files in any format
Upload, input, or train any artificial intelligence models using these files, in whole or in part
Submit the files (original or modified) into any generative AI platform or dataset for the purpose of:
- Creating derivative images
- Training or fine-tuning models
- Iterative design or image-to-image workflows
- Style transfer or content extraction

This includes, but is not limited to: Midjourney, DALL·E, Adobe Firefly, ArtBreeder, NightCafe, Deep Dream Generator, Stable Diffusion, Leonardo AI, Fotor, Images.ai, DeepAI, Stable Diffusion, Google Imagen, Ideogram, Recraft, Seedream, Grok, GPT‑4o and other similar AI tools, software, or training environments.

Use these materials to create or sell “new” backgrounds, overlays, or textures derived from the originals
Print, repackage, or license these files as standalone products, whether in digital or physical form
Provide layered PSD or PNG files to clients or end users that contain any editable version of the background
Use in any commercial offering that enables others to access, extract, or isolate the background as an independent file
Sell purchased designs to any background (digital or physical) selling platform in ANY iteration

PERMITTED USES

You may:

Incorporate the backgrounds into your own photographic or painterly client work as flattened files
Use them in commercial editing for portraiture, composites, or digital painting, provided that the background is not extractable or resold
Use them as painterly bases inside programs such as Corel Painter or Adobe Photoshop, provided that the work is hand-rendered and human-created

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For backgrounds and textures downloads, please see User Agreement or link 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.

This collection comes as a digital download. Instructions will be sent immediately after purchase but you must check "Subscribe to our email list" to receive the login instructions. You may unsubscribe at any time.

The master collection was originally released August 28, 2023

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