Taking Textures Further with Maryellen Stone
 
Did you miss our highly anticipated live broadcast? Don’t worry, you can rent the full recording right now and enjoy unlimited viewing access for a full four weeks!
 
When this session went live, the energy in our virtual room was unmatched. Photographers logged in from all corners of the globe, including the UK, USA, Canada, Sweden, and South Africa, to watch the brilliant Maryellen Stone share her fine-art texturing secrets.
 
This recording is your chance to pull up a front-row seat and discover how to completely transform your images into deeply expressive, painterly works of art using foundational post-processing techniques.
 
🌟 What the Community is Saying (Direct Feedback from the Live Chat):
 
💬 The interesting thing is that all these techniques have been available within Ps for years! No AI stuff!! Marilyn T.
💬 Fabulous presentation. I love your style of teaching and found your explanations easy to follow. Thank You! Caroline
💬 Absolutely wonderful... going to go out and photograph some more textures. Ellen R.
💬 The bokeh on the vase photo is FABULOUS as well as the colour gradient! Danelle J.
💬 Beautiful Maryellen. All different and all beautiful! Sharon G.
💬 Every day is a school day. Celia H.
💬 That was great, can’t wait for the next thanks! Jerry
 
💻 Core Techniques & Concepts Covered:
In this comprehensive, step-by-step workshop, Maryellen breaks down her exact creative process.
 
You will learn:
The Foundations of Texturing: Why you simply cannot talk about textures without mastering layers, masks, opacities, and blend modes.
The Magic of Blend Modes: How to navigate and experiment with different blend modes, including Multiply, Overlay, and more, to find beautiful, unexpected creative surprises.
The Power of Opacity Control: How to lower and manipulate your layer opacity so you can cleanly view your underlying subject, build up effects gradually, and mask away details precisely.
Flipping and Reusing Textures: Creative ways to alter, flip, or reapply the exact same texture file to achieve entirely different visual results.
Real-World Project Walkthroughs: Watch Maryellen apply these tools live on various subjects, including a vase photo, a lion image, a garden dahlia, and even transforming a raw waterfall photo into a stunning texture overlay.
Pure, Classic Editing Skills: How to achieve stunning fine-art results without relying on automated AI tools, using classic, powerful manual methods that give you 100% artistic control.
 
🛠️ Using Photoshop Elements or Affinity Photo?
While Maryellen explicitly demonstrates these methods inside Photoshop during this workshop, photographers using Photoshop Elements or Affinity Photo can easily follow along and achieve the exact same results. The core texturing tools are universally available across these platforms:
 
Photoshop Elements users: You can fully replicate Maryellen's workflow using your main Layers panel, standard blend modes (such as Multiply and Overlay), and standard layer masks to cleanly brush textures off your main subjects.
Affinity Photo users: The adjustment process is just as seamless. You can control your texture mapping directly using your regular layers, built-in masking brushes, and standard blend mode options without needing any complicated file conversions.
 
🎟️ What's Included inside Your Rental:
Four Weeks of Full Access: Stream the complete 4K session as many times as you like over a four-week period whenever it fits your schedule.
Step-by-Step Software Guidance: Clear, foundational explanations that translate perfectly across your preferred editing software.
The In-Room Learning Context: See the exact questions and lightbulb moments shared by your fellow community members during the broadcast.