Textures? What's that?

So if you're new in the photo world (or maybe if you're old... like you still like to pull out your old film camera and snap a few...) - You might not know a lot about textures and how to use them... and I'll be honest - this was me on Friday evening, but I ran across Jessica Drossin's Textures blog and I became intrigued.  Sure, I've heard about textures - but have I actually used one?  Nope.  So I took this opportunity to try it for free (and enter a sweet contest while I'm at it!)  If you haven't heard of Jessica & don't know much about textures, I recommend checking out her blog!  She's giving away her "Autumn Texture" for photogs to use & then post their finished image onto her facebook to be entered into her contest to win one of her texture sets (which are AWESOME!)  She also has a great tutorial for beginners - check it out by clicking here! 

Check out my attempt at using textures for the first time. I only used the texture she gave and used it the exact way she showed in the tutorial (just to keep it simple :)).  Check it out:

This is before:

This is after:

I love the warm tones it added... I am sure I could do a lot more to it, but here is a start!  I am afraid I'm going to have a new addition (other than my photo prop one)... TEXTURIZING! ;)

Hope you enjoyed!
Rachel
xo