You can't use it as a "background." As used here, a "texture" is an image applied over your image at a highly-reduced opacity (or otherwise blended-in) so that it looks as though the image was printed onto a textured surface. The texture image itself should not be so "present" as to be a subject itself.
It is a fine, and necessarily subjective line. It is far safer to just shoot your own texture or background during the submission week so that it doesn't matter how you use it.
In the examples in this gallery I have examples of a texture image applied in varying opacities in (relatively crude) 10% increments. It is very hard to make a clear line between when you have an image with a texture applied and when you have a "composite" image.
If you have time before the submission deadline, you can submit a Ticket with before/after versions and an explanation, and get an "informal opinion" (not "pre-validation") of your proposed image from one or more SC members.
Message edited by author 2013-03-13 00:10:40. |
