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Altered Photo
by Sue Stover

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Altered Photo

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I love this way of personalizing photographs. It’s an easy technique that makes your subject stand out and can cover up uninteresting or distracting backgrounds.

Materials:

1.

Start with a photograph that you want to alter.

2.

Sand away the background that you want to get rid of. I usually use a finer grade to do most of the sanding and then a coarser grade to add some deeper scratches and texture. I will usually leave a halo or shadow around the subject to make it stand out more. If your background is light, you can darken it with paint.

3.

Paint the background using a combination of Lumiere or Textile Colors in colors that compliment your subject. I generally use a few colors and let the colors and brushstrokes add more texture. Let dry.

4.

With the Pearl Ex Stamp Pads stamp onto the background being careful to mask off your subject so that the stamping stays on the background area.

It's that easy!

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