Messing around with textures...

Thoughts?

IMAGE LINK: http://www.flickr.com/​photos/jcreed6484/5892​158913/

I think the execution was done well, but you certainly lost a lot of the picture in the process. It took me a second to figure out what the original picture was.

Yea, it was done mainly for proof-of-concept. I had a hard time keeping the original photo from leaking into the black cracks. Other than applying a mask and erasing all of the photo that covered the cracks, is there any other way to get more of the original without loosing the separation of the cracks?

That's pretty much what I figured by your initial post - that you were doing it as proof-of-concept. Honestly I have no idea. This is not something that I have tried in the past, my comment was solely based on my initial impressions just from seeing what you had done.

I dont think any of the original image is really lost by the cracks - I think more is lost by the texture of the wall (??). The only way that I can see you being able to keep more of the original image is by somehow reducing the amount of texture of the wall itself <dontknow>

I'll just have to mess with it. I tried reducing the transparency of the wall, but it just looked weird. I may try another run with a layer mask on the original photo.

In any case, thanks for the comments!

I think this looks really cool. My 2cents haha.

Texture Layer needs a different blending mode than just an 80/20 fade...