Create a Fine Art Dog Portrait with a Photo in Procreate

1. Welcome!: Welcome to create a fine art dog portrait with a photo in procreate. In this class, you will learn how to blend a photo with background textures to give the photo of fine art look. You can use my adorable puppy photo or one of your own. You will learn how to mask away your subject's background and how to smoothly blend your photo with a new background. You will create a final portrait with these techniques giving your photo a Fine Art painted look. You will also learn how to use a texture layer as an overlay to add a brush stroke finished to the final art. In order to complete this class, you will need an iPad with procreate installed. You will also need an Apple pencil. You will need to already have a basic understanding of using Procreate, including installing brushes. And you will need to have the provided photo and textures onto your iPad before starting the class. Provided with the class is this week puppy photo to background textures, one canvas overlay texture, and my portrait painting brush set. Are you ready to take a photo from snapshot to fine art? If so, then please join me. Your class project is to create a fine art dog portrait using my provided resources. Or feel free to use a photo of your own pet and a different background texture if you wish. I look forward to seeing your finished photo art. 2. Set Up Your Canvas: Okay, Today I'm going to make a piece of photo art. Now, when I make photo art, I take a photo that I've taken with my camera and I blend the photo with a new background. And I've given you a couple of backgrounds, texture overlay and dog photo that I'm working with. So you can try to do the same thing and create something similar. You can use your own dog photo. But I thought this puppy was a great one to start with. Now, I have all my files already onto the iPad. So I'm assuming you do too. If you don't, you might want to do that before we get started because I don't go into all of that. I then don't pay attention to how my files are organized because I'm the most disorganized person in the world. I have some files in my photos library and have other stored as files. So my stuff is all over the place. So just don't pay attention to that. First thing I'm gonna do is set up my Canvas. Now, already have one here, setup 4 thousand by 6 thousand, but I'm going to set up a new one. Hit the plus button. And I already have portrait large picked here, which is 4 thousand by 6 thousand. That's the size I like to work in. When I do portrait pictures. I like to work high-quality and 300 DPI so I can have a large size print made. Or if I'm doing this for somebody else, they might want to have a large size print made of their pet. That way they'll have plenty of pixels there to work with. So to set up a new canvas, you hit the plus button, makes sure DPI is on 300s, so you'll get the best quality. Then you'll type in your width and your height. You don't have to do 4 thousand by 6 thousand if your iPad has less memory, minds got quite a bit of memory, so it can handle those files. But you could do half that size, 2 thousand by 3 thousand or even smaller if you'd like. But I'm just going to type in 4 thousand. Their height already has 6 thousand. If it didn't, I would type that in right there like that. And DPI, as I said, 300. And you'll see that it says maximum layers are 18. I won't use 18 layers, but that's what's available to me with my memory on my iPad. I'm gonna hit Create and it automatically opens the new Canvas as soon as you do that. So the Canvas is set up and ready to go. 3. Mask Photo & Background Together: Okay, Now that we have the canvas ready to go here, It's time to start working on creating this photo art. So the very first thing I'm gonna do here is insert a photo. And we're gonna do, I'm gonna do it. I mean, you could do your own dog if you would like. But this is the dog I'm going to work with. And I'm going to turn this dog snapshot into hopefully it kinda old masters style looking work of art using two backgrounds. I'm gonna go ahead and hit the plus sign to create a new layer. And I've got two backgrounds. I'm not sure which one I'm going to use. I've got two here. Let me click on that one, okay, that one's horizontal. So I'm going to add the other layer. And just because they're horizontal doesn't mean you have to work with them as horizontal. I'm going to turn off the horizontal one. And the second one I'm going to pull down under the dog. So I will use probably use the horizontal one as an overlay on top. Now, these are quote, textures and backgrounds. I make these for photographers and I started, these are some from several years ago that I made that are still a couple of my favorites. You can overlay them on top of an image and change layer mode, or you can use them underneath an image as a background, which is, that's the way I designed mine. So they can be used either way on most of the things I design. But let's talk about where you would get backgrounds. There's a number of places you can get backgrounds. Of course, you can paint your own in Procreate. You can paint your own in other painting software if you have it, you can paint your own in your art studio, like I do. If you have an art studio and you can use any materials you want and then photograph your finished pieces and make your backgrounds that way. There's a number of places out there to get free, backgrounds and textures. And then there's a number of people to purchase high-quality texture and backgrounds from. So there's numerous places you can get them if you want to change out background. And in this video, I'm going to show you how I do this. Right now. He's got the gray background. He's got the leash off of the left side on top there, which I do not want. So when I masked away, I will mask away the leash. And then there's ground-level he sitting on. Now if I were doing a head portrait, I would enlarge him and not paint the ground level at all. And just the portrait of him somewhere around this neck. But I really liked his little mark here in the front. I like the way he's sitting. So I want a portrait of the whole dog. In this case, I'm going to leave the ground level, but I'll show you how to work with that, to work it in with the background. So you need a brush. So let's go to the correct brushes. For here. My portrait painting brushes. And I've included these with the class as well. They're very easy to work with. Very simple. And you'll see this one down here at the bottom that says Super brown, super soft frown masking brush. Click on that. Whoops, I clicked on it too many times to get that selected. So the brushes selected the paintbrush and we have a let us go to them for the blending brushes, they can also be used as blenders, which we may or may not do. To lose the background. You could erase using the eraser tool. But masking is better. And the reason why is because if you mask away something by mistake, Let's say I masked away the top of his ear or something and I was like, Oh no. I mean, you can hit undo and if you've erased it and bring it back, but let's say you got too far along. And then you realize though you had eliminated something you really needed to keep by masking, you can bring it back. So we're going to on the dog layer, create a masking layer. So just make sure you're on the dog layer. Tap it and click Mask, and automatically a new layer pops up, says Layer Mask. This is the layer you're going to paint on. And notice the color. We'll change to change to black, which is what you want. You paint with black to take away something and you paint with white to bring it back. And let me make sure I'm on the masking brush. I'm on it at a low opacity. I'm going to make sure the opacity is all the way up because I want to totally remove this background with this brush. And then I'm checking my size here and start painting. Now, the background that's underneath him, from the background I've included is now appearing when I'm mask away. Now let me show you what I was talking about. Let's say you mask away something accidentally. Oops, I masked away his ear. You could hit Undo, or you could simply switch to white on your color wheel and using that same brush, bring it right back. And then you can go back to black and continue on with the rest of your masking. I masked with a soft masking brush because I will when I get in close, I will actually mask away his edges a little bit to blend him beautifully with the background. So I'm just going i'm I'm getting as close as I can without going over him because I'm at full opacity. If I go over him, it's going to do just like it did with the ear. And it's going to take it away completely. And when I do go over the edges of him, I don't want it to take it away completely. So I'm trying not to go over the edges right now and I'm coming right down to the ground level on both sides of him. All right. He's got a new background here, but I'm going to lower the size of the brush now and try to work my way in a little closer without going over. Maybe even lower that a little more. So he can get into these tight areas. Like so. And he's got these little bits of fur peeking out here. So I'm going to have to be careful in that area. I mean, I got rid of the little bit tougher, but I can always paint those back in if I want. And that's the beauty of Procreate. You can do so much with this. So here I am working with a photo to create a piece of photo art. But you can also then change and start painting if you would like. Which I may do that with those little whiskers and I might not. Just depends on how it all looks. I'm just working my way around the body very closely. To him. I like this soft masking brush because it's not too harsh and you could see when it's smaller, it's a little bit stronger on the edging, but over here on the left where it was a bigger brush, see how soft that is. So I really do like the soft masking brush. And it only gets really kind of a harder edge when when it gets small, when the brushes small. But we're going to soften that up because we're going to blend this in a little better. All right. Let me go around the top of his head and I'm not worried about getting in-between every little piece of fur. Sie, I'm actually leaving some white there. But I'll address that in a minute. Turn them around. You can turn your your art with your two fingers. Just grab it and twist it. Just working my way around. I know that looks really choppy, but like I said, I'll address that in a minute. Working my oops. I hit Undo there because I masked away a little spot on his face that I didn't want to just working my way all around the edges. I didn't do any editing of this photo. But you could certainly do that at anytime. You can do that before or you can do that after. You've done your masking. Let me turn them right side up again. Now that line on the sides a little bit too bright. So I'm going to make the brush a little bigger and come in a little closer. Trim that up. It looks like he's kinda paste it on their hoops. And I don't want that. So to address the pasted on look, I want to go with a little bigger brush and lower the opacity of the brush and see if this brushes a decent size, a little smaller. And now I'm gonna go over these areas. Gentle taps with this big soft brush at the lower opacity, pulling from away, from, away from him toward those three areas. To actually, I'm actually masking away his edges. But It's, it's blending him with the background and set a low opacity. So it's not totally like taking away the firm name. You can see the difference between the left ear and how nicely that looks blended in and the right ear, which looks pasted on that, paste it on look is what you want to avoid and you can just adjust your brush size and just do gentle short strokes in areas like this. And then do the same thing over here with the same size brush on this side. And just keep going until when you zoom out. That white is really, really pretty much gone. So I'm pulling toward him with this brush, which is at the lower opacity. It's like painting. And that's what I feel like when I work with my photo art is like I'm doing a painting. And the photo is just one of this applies in my painting. And work my way around this side of that ear. Pulling toward the dog, which is revealing the background and getting rid of that white halo effect around him. And if it's still there, I'll do it some more. You only need a hint of edges, but fur and feathers when you're working on creatures showing on these edges, because. 4. Enhance The Dog Art: Okay. Before we go any further, I want to talk a little bit about color tone. The background I'm using has a very warm tone with the browns and the, the sort of greenish color that's in there. Now when I put another layer on top like a texture like this, it can enhance the tones of the animal. But you could also add it the dog layer by clicking on adjustments. And you can work on color balance, hue saturation, and brightness play with curves. A gradient, if you would like. I don't usually do a whole lot of this. When I'm doing my photo editing, sometimes I will need to warm things up and let's see if I click on Color Balance and layer. See how it has different tones pop up. If I wanted to bring more yellow into the dog or blues, obviously blue is too cool. I'm magenta. You can, you can play with these. You can bring a little red in, bring a little yellow in, and play with them to make them look the way you want. I don't usually do that, but you can do that. I just wanted to show you that. And I'm going to undo what I've done there because I did want to show you that you can get on your photo layer and do editing right from here to whatever you wish to do. Let me look at saturation. So let me pull his saturation up a little bit more so you can lower it. Adjusted in play with brightness. I'm going for an old masters look, which are kinda deep and dark and moody. You can even change the hue here, which obviously I don't want to do because that will look really funky. And the set a, when you open them, they're 50% or at least on mine. I do kinda like what I did there. Upping the saturation on him a little and lowering his brightness just a little. Yeah. That gave him a little bit darker look because it's pretty bright. Photo to start with. If you take the mask off, you can see he looks a little darker and deeper and tones now, which is the look I'm going for. So he's really cute. I'm leaving the layer mask in place as is and not squeezing those two layers together. Because I may wanna do some adjustments, um, to the original layer mask at a later time. I might, I might not. So I'm gonna go to the Layer two here on my screen. And this background is horizontal, but in Procreate, It's just so easy to select it just so you click this arrow at the top. So easy just to turn things around if you wanted to or resize things. If you wanted to. Obviously, I need to zoom out a little bit and undo what I've done and do this again. So let's zoom out and do it so I can see what I'm doing. You don't have to use the whole background. You can just use one side of it. One side or the other. I kinda like that that side. And you can turn it any way you want. I kind of like that side. Squeeze that down. I'm just squeezing this with my fingers because this has a little open spot where the where the dog might be right there. That might look interesting. So I'm going to hit the layer panel, which now has that in place. And then I'm going to change the layer mode. And multiply is always gonna make things much darker, which is one of my favorites. Screen is going to wash everything out. Color dodge, add lighter color. Overlay is going to make things really vibrant and rich. Soft light just adds a nice tone, overall tone. And hard light, you're going to get more strength and the color. But I'll just scan through these layer modes every time I do this and see what might look right? And I always like multiply, It's one of my favorites, but it's way too dark. So you can pull the opacity down and get it about where you might want it. Now that's still too dark. But let's do this. Duplicate that same layer. And change the layer mode on the duplicate to something like soft light and raise the opacity up and down, up and down. This is a way you can play with light. And it brings the color of the background texture that I'm using into the animal. Notice. See, see the dark and the blue tones in there. But when I've added this, now it's got those warm tones from the background. Actually in the dog. I feel the multiplies too strong so you can get back on that layer and play with the slider. I want to, I want to bring the eye to the face so the feet. I want them to show. But they don't need to be quite as dark or as light as the top. I've got multiply on 43% and I've got soft light on. Just slide this back and forth till it gets to looking good. About 80% range. And then you turn off the multiply. You can see how much brighter things are. I like what the multiplier is doing down around the bottom half of the dog and the bottom half the image. I think it's still keeping his face too dark. And I want the I to go to the face. So I'm gonna get on layer two and going to create a mask. And once again, you can use, you can use any brush to mask. But I'm going to use the soft round masking brush at the lower opacity. Really big. And I'm just going to sweep towards his face from this upper right corner to bring a little bit of brightness there. And you can look at the mask and see, see the difference already. Then I may get to top all a little bit brighter. And then I'm gonna come down and I'm going to sweep a little bit into the chest area, but not as much as I did at the top. I turn it off and on, off and on to see how it's looking. I really liked that. I feel that I liked the darkening it did on the feet area. I feel like I may have gotten him a little bit too saturated now that I've added this on top and it's added color, it's also added saturation. So I'm gonna go back to his layer. Go back to saturation. And I'm going to pull his saturation down a little bit. There. I'm a much more pleased with that. Now, you can add more layers on top of this. If you wanted to. You can add other textures, other backgrounds. You can paint on top of this. Now, you can get on the dog layer and paint like I've taught about painting or photo and other classes. Um, that is definitely something that can be done. And I think I might just go ahead and do that here so I can show you, um, I'm gonna get on the dog layer and blend a little bit with a brush as if I'm painting the photo, but I'm not going to paint the whole photo. I'm just going to touch up some little areas. I'm happy with the layer mask. So I'm going to squeeze those two together, so they become one. And if you want to at this point now that you have your subject masked out, you can turn off everything else, like so. And you can save this as a PNG file, which I'll have this transparent background. You can save that. So if you wanted to put another background with this dog, Let's say you're doing it with doing clients dog. And you're not sure what background they're going to like. You can save this as a PNG so that later you can reopen it. And then you can stick another texture behind him or background behind him. I like this. So I'm going to it's just some random dog I saw when I was out shooting wildlife that happened to come by and took some pictures of him and he's just so cute. I'm going to paint on his layer with the blending brush. And I'm going to use this simple canvas brush right here. Actually. Before I do that, at this point, I'm going to merge all of these together there because I'm happy with that. I'm going to duplicate that in case I mess it up. Now I'm going to paint with the blending brush. So now when I paint with this, wherever the brush touches on the dog as a blender and the background, it will give the same look to it. But this side here were some of his fur and whiskers was coming out and it's not. Now. I'm going to pull maybe at a lower opacity, not, not too strong because. I don't want to paint this whole photo. I'm just going to pull that out a little bit into the background. Some of that whisker tree look infer. Going to pull down a little bit here by this ear. I could end up now at this point painting the whole photo with this one brush. And you can pull from the background into the dog. That same brush. Just giving it a little bit of light canvas texture because I'm working at a low opacity. I'll go back and forth. It's just very subtle, but it sort of soften that edge a little and made the whiskers look like they're coming out a little more. I could actually paint in some whiskers. Where else do I want to touch him up with this brush maybe on the top of this ear. And let me go a little bigger on the brush and pull some of these pieces. Little Canvas look there. And maybe on this side, pull this out a little. And this is just minor little things you can do to really make it look fantastic. So you don't even notice because of the background that I had initially masked away those whiskers. But if you wanted to paint whiskers back and you can add a new layer with this canvas brush and a very small size. And you can pick a color. I'm one of the whiskers and you could actually, that's not bright enough. I need to go brighter than that. Go with a white. You could actually paint some of those in on the new layer and extend them out. Like so. And then go back to the canvas. Blending brush and blend that which you just painted, blended in real good. And I could sit here and fuss with this all day, but you guys would get so bored. But now he's got a few little whiskers sticking out and those are on the layer. So he decided, I don't like it. You zoom in, you can turn them off, turn them on. And if you decide you want more whiskers, I'm only painted a few. You can duplicate the layer. Grab the section, you duplicate it, and move it around. A few more here and they're kinda in-between those other ones. What's that looks kinda neat. So there's those whiskers I got rid of. I just painted some back in. So I'm going to squeeze those layers together. So it's, it's very subtle if you just look at this little area by this ear. That's before I messed with the Canvas paintbrush. And this is now so it finishes this out a little better. And you know, if you're doing this kind of thing for a client, you want to pay attention to finishing it out as best you can. Because to me, this looks better than that did when you're zoomed in and looking at it up close. It just looks a little bit more polished. And you could continue on with the canvas blending, brush and paint, the whole rest of the dog to give it a real old masters painting look. But I'm not gonna do that in this class. What I am gonna do is I'm going to come back and add a texture. I've designed strictly a texture, not a background. It's meant to be used as an overlay. And you've got this in your resources to, I'm going to add that on top to really give this thing some more painterly texture. So I'll be back in just a moment. 5. Finishing Touches: Okay, I'm ready to add a finishing texture layer. So I'm going to click the Plus and create a new layer. And I'm going to bring in that finishing texture. In my iPad. It's in my files. There it is. And it brings it in horizontal because it's horizontal. So I want to rotate it to vertical and then I wanted to take my two fingers and stretch it out to cover the entire canvas. And then just tap your layers and it should be there. And now is when you'll change the layer mode and go through here and see which one will look best. And I've already decided soft light is one of my favorites for texture overlays like this. It's a little strong zoom in here so we can see it. If you turn it off and on, you can see it brings that nice texture and brushstrokes into the dog. But it's a little strong overall. Similar to lower the opacity of that layer. I want to be able to see some of the brush strokes in there. But they don't need to be super, super strong. Maybe about 60, 60%. So you want to be sure about that you can hit your plus churn, mean your box here and turn it off and on and kind of take a look around at the piece as a whole and also zoom out and do it. It's a little strong on the dog. I like what is done in the background. In fact, I could even go a little bit stronger on the opacity for that background, maybe about 75, but as too strong on the dog. So this is at the point where masking will come into play again. Tap on the texture layer, hit Mask, and go get a brush. Now, like I said, you can mask with any brush you want. You could use the masking brush again. I'm going to try the canvas brush because it has a Canvas texture. And there's a Canvas texture I've just laid on here. So the two will kinda go together. Good. I'm thinking I'm just going to go over the dog while I'm doing that at full opacity, I don't wanna do that lower that opacity because I want some of that texture in the dog. I just don't want so much of it, but I do like the so much of it in the background. Definitely don't want any of it over the eyes. So I'm going to mask those away pretty good. And just gently go all around on the dog at this low opacity. And on the nose. I don't really need a whole lot of it. And I'm just keeping I'm not picking up my brush now. I'm just kind of going over it. And it's at the low opacity, so it's taking some of it away, but it's leaving some of it and go all the way down. And of course could use a bigger brush, then I'm using this is just the size I happened to pick. I'm just keeping my brush down and keep going there. Now let's zoom out. And you can see the dog shape. And you can turn it off and on to see what you think. And you can also adjusted this point. If you want the background full texture, you could pull it all the way up. I kinda like things around the 70 something to 80% range when I'm doing this. So now he has a finishing layer, which really gives him a fine art old masters look from a photo, which is what I was trying to do. I'm looking at this left ear. I'm doing this might take a little more texture off that left ear with that same brush. Let me check this one too. And of course, since I'm asking if I decide Oh, no, I took that texture off of there and I want to bring some of it back, just go to white. And you can bring it right back on there, wherever you might have taken it off that you decided you didn't want to take it off and back-and-forth, just like with the dog. He could fine tune this as much as you like with this masking. Well, doesn't he look so handsome now? So of course I've merged everything and I do that. That's the way I work. I constantly merge my layers together, not the smartest thing in the world to do. Especially if you might need to make changes. I don't do work for clients. I don't do any more custom work. That's not in my things I wanna do. So I do everything I do I do for myself using most of the time using my own photos. Um, what was I gonna say? I'm getting forgetful in my old age folks. Alright, merging layers. I do merge them together. When I'm done, when I'm happy with it. And then you can sign it if you like, by adding a new layer and using any brush to sign it with. There are some other brushes in here that are kinda fun. Let me turn off that. What we just did see the difference between the two. So if you want a really smooth portrait look, something like that would be good. If you want to really add that texture in there like I did, you can do that and have two totally different looks. Pretty much. But let's say you like the smooth look, but you wanted to add a little bit of something special yourself. You could add a new layer, go to the paintbrush. Let's pick the fan brush. And let's say I wanted to bring a little bit of this lighter color down, a little bit here. Let me undo that. Just in this area you wanted to add a little bit of your own texture, finishing texture. I mean, I'm just messing around here. This isn't what I wanna do with this. But you could do this playing with opacity and different sized brushes and do something like that to add some of your own Marks, which is always makes your work more original. Because believe it or not, I have a lot of people who use my textures and backgrounds and we'll use them just like this, just like they're presented. And that's fine. They're presented in a way that they're meant to be used that way. But the ones that really stand out to me are the ones who add a little something of their own to it. Either other brush marks, Finishing textures like I did up the top. I'm just other things to do to make it more uniquely yours. So there I've added that and I could then play with opacity of that and add in a little more if I wanted to bring some of it up. Just to add a little bit more texture in there. Am I getting anything that I do, something wrong? No, it's still okay. It's there. It's just so light at the top that added some neat, neatness to it. And that's on its own layer. So once again, turn it off and on, play with the opacity. Get it looking just the way you want. So we've got three versions now. We've got the original masking with the original background as it was. And then we've got this little thing I just did with adding some strokes. And then we've got this one that I did with adding the finishing texture. So I got a couple of different looks and I could save all three and look at them on my computer after I get them back to my computer and see which one I like best. I tend to like this one. So I'm probably going to go with this one for my little guy. Isn't he cute? He's just so cute. I'm just reminding you what the initial photo look like. Because I did not duplicate it like I normally do. That's what I started with with the little guy. And that's what I've ended up with. So I went from a snapshot photo I got on the fly of a cute little dog, cute little puppy, Rottweiler puppy. And I'm taking him to a fine art portrait now. And I also wanted to mention, once you've merged your layers, you've decided which one you like. You can also make further adjustments to this as a whole. So let's say I wanted to play with color balance or saturation or curves. You could play with curves and do a little brightening If you wanted to. Well darkening and certain areas, a little brightening of the darker areas. So you could just do. Whatever you want it. So there he is with a little curves adjustment to add a little more brightness on that adjustment layer. Because it's a duplicate. If I like the brightness in the face, but don't like it anywhere else, I could just mask away everything else except for the area where I like it. Or I can change the opacity to get it exactly where I wanted. So it's just a little bit brighter. I kinda like that thirty-six percent. Just slight difference. Very slight. But you can sit here and mess with these as long as you'd like. Like I said, it's very meditative. It's very fun to take a snapshot like this into a piece of fine art like this, just by using backgrounds and textures. And it's really easy to do in Procreate. I've had a lot of people asked me about doing it in Procreate. Yes, you most definitely can. That's what I've just shown you. On my desktop, I use other older software that's not even in existence anymore. And it's just what I'm comfortable working with. And of course, if you put your photos on your iPad and your textures and your backgrounds that you purchase and you find. You put them on, into files on your iPad. You can sit here and load a bunch of photos on here. Take your iPad to a quiet place, play some music, or get out in nature and sit here and play with them and come up with a transformation from something like this to something like this. All by using masking and some creative thinking and some good backgrounds and textures. Of course, I mean, you want to pick one that's right for your subject. How do you know what's right for each subject? You don't know. You just don't know until you do it. A lot of times, I mean, sometimes you can know if you've done it enough, you can know, okay, that background will work with this subject because I've done this enough and I know that we'll go good together. But if I did not save the original PNG of the dog, I didn't say that layer in here because I merged them. But let's say I still had that open where the dog was masked out from this original photo and all the background was gone. And I had the one texture here behind him. But then I'll say I didn't like that. All you've got to do is get underneath the layer that you've masked on. And input instead of the texture looking at and the background you're looking at, input a different one from your files. Pick another color, one, pick, pick another style, and see what looks best with your subject. And you can sit there and play all day doing different things to create something fun that's going to appeal to you. And if you're doing it for a client that will appeal to a client, um, there's just there's no limit to what you can do with your photos and merging them with new backgrounds and with textures, and even with painting on them. To create interesting effects like this with different brushes. And you can mask with any brush. I mean, there's just no limit to this stuff. I'm the iPad and procreate is an artist's dream. Yes, but it's also something photographers can use to take that photography to the next level. Like I've done here with this going from snapshot to fine art portrait. So I hope you have enjoyed this and found what I've showed you to be useful. And you can work with my dog and the backgrounds. I've given you textures that I've given you with this class. You can work with that or you can work with something totally your own. But I want to see your projects, whether you do this one or whether you do your own pet or a neighbor's pet or your mom and dad's beloved pet. I mean, I want to see what you guys do with a photo. And it doesn't have to be a high high-end photo from, I mean, I shoot all my photos with a telephoto lens, which is why this looks the way it does with a nice blurred background. I he was quite a distance away from me. But he heard I was taken a few shots of him and he heard the clicking on my camera and he sat down, just looked at me and I thought, well that's just as cute as can be. I shot a few more pictures, but I mean, you don't have to use the high-end cameras like I do when I'm out shooting wildlife. You can use a point-and-shoot camera. You can use your cell phone, whatever that you'd like to use a take photos with. And it doesn't have to be a dog. It can be an object. It can be another kind of animal or bird. It can be your your brothers 1965 Mustang or something. I mean, whatever you might have taken a photo of that you want to turn into a fine art look or a fun art look because a lot of textures or fun, these are fine. I consider this, this pirate textures I've given you fine art backgrounds because that's the way I designed them. I had a certain thing in mind when I was designing these in my studio. But a lot of textures are fun and energetic and you can even paint your own background behind your subject. So you can mask away your subject onto a plain background color. And then you could paint something totally cool. We'll use in any of your brushes that you have, any colors you want. Just make sure you're doing it under the subject that you've masked away and watch it appear and then take a look at it and see what you like and just have fun. Anyway, I've rambled on long enough. I hope you guys have enjoyed this. And I look forward to seeing what you do with your photos when combining them with different backgrounds. As always, thanks for watching. Have a great day.