More Free Backgrounds and Textures
Jan 28, 2010 Free Stuff, Photos and Backgrounds, photos
Recently purchased a good SLR digital camera and upgraded to a Flickr Pro account. What does this mean? I have a growing assortment of photos that can be used for worship slides, print, websites, etc… and I encourage you to use them. It would be nice if you would let me know where it’s being used.. and a link back every once in a while would be nice too. I’ll send out an update on Twitter when new photos are added.. so follow @rgmmusic or join my facebook page facebook.com/russellmartinmusic.
Most of all.. enjoy!!!
Background Textures
Jan 26, 2010 Photos and Backgrounds
Almost anything you can think of up close can be used as a texture for backgrounds, worship slides and more. They can be layered on top of each of each other for a more complex look.
I have created a texture set on flickr for you to enjoy and use. You are free to use any of them, however I would love to see how you are using them so send me a sample or link.
My Daily Photo 8/20/09
Aug 20, 2009 Photos and Backgrounds
Today’s photo was actually taken this past week when I led worship at St Marks UMC in Houston. It is of their chancel area.
My Daily Photo 07/23/09
Jul 22, 2009 Photos and Backgrounds
This past summer I spent 3 weeks leading worship at Lakeview Methodist Conference Center in Palestine Tx. I have done this for about 12 years now. This sign is in front of the camp where I started.
– Post From My iPhone
Tags: blog, camp, conference, iphone, Methodist, photo, summer, Worship
My Daily Photo-08/16/09
Jul 21, 2009 Photos and Backgrounds
This photo is of the steeple at our church. I used photogene app to add some effects.
Free Background- Palm Trees
Mar 29, 2009 Free Stuff, Photos and Backgrounds
Took this photo on Galveston Island last year. Feel free to use it for your worship slides, announcements or other publications. Enjoy.
Tags: Background, Free, Palm, Tree
Free Background- Garden Angel Blur in 4 Colors
Jan 2, 2009 Free Stuff, Photos and Backgrounds
One of the most downloaded backgrounds on this site has been the Garden Angel Blur that I made from a photo I had taken this Summer at one of my work camps. I thought maybe someone would like it in a color other than green… so here they are. Click on the image once to go to the gallery, and then again to view the full sized image. Then right click and save. You are free to use them for your worship services, announcements etc.. It would be cool if you would let me know how you used them.
Tags: angel, Background, camp, Free, freebie, Media Shout, Powerpoint, summer, work, Worship
Two Free Cross Backgrounds
Dec 17, 2008 Free Stuff, How To, Photos and Backgrounds
Here are two cross backgrounds that you can use for worship slides, web pages or whatever. The original photo of the “message cross” is the big white cross at Peace Chapel of Lakeview Methodist Conference Center where I have spent many many weeks leading music for youth camps. The original picture for “Hanging Cross” was an out of focus “mistake” that turned out to make a good background. It reminded me that even an out of focus photo can be redeemed and used for good. Enjoy.
Tags: Background, camp, Free, Free Stuff, Photoshop, Worship, youth
Backgrounds
Mar 31, 2008 Free Stuff, Photos and Backgrounds
Have you taken or found a cool picture and wondered how you can turn it into a powerpoint background, but you don’t have a program like adobe photoshop or macromedia flashworks. What if all you had was Powerpoint?
Well it just might be easier than you think. While you may not be able to do all the slick effects possible with some of the other photo programs you can still come up with a usable worship background from one of your photos. Here I have taken a picture that I took at our recent Palm Sunday service. Let’s turn it into a background slide you can use for Power Point or Media shout or even other publications.
First I opened up Microsoft powerpoint. Then I clicked insert > file > palm.jpg.
Second I selected the photo and then found my photo toolbar. I choose brighten and brought up the brightness of the photo. Depending on your photo you may also want to reduce the contrast of the picture or if you wanted to eventually use lighter text on top of the slide then reduce the brightness.
Third I added a text box, I chose the papyrus font and typed in the Text “Hosanna”. I changed the text size to 117pt, then I rotated the text and placed it on the left hand side.
Fourth I created a rounded corner rectangle auto shape from the auto shape menu. I wanted to use the auto shape as a place to eventually put text so I drew a fairly large square on the right hand side of the slide. I went to format auto shape, chose to fill it with white and then set the transparency to 45 percent.
I think that slide would do great as a title slide or for some small announcement but what about a slide to use for song lyrics. With just a few changes I found a way to make a slide for such a purpose.
First I selected the slide and clicked ctrl+d which duplicated the slide.
Second I selected the large rectangle auto shape and dragged it over to fill the entire slide.
Third I selected the “Hosanna” text, rotated it back to horizontal, shrunk the size to 60pt and placed it in the bottom right hand corner
Fourth I chose the text box, right clicked chose order>bring to front. This placed the text box in front of the text so you can see the text faintly behind the box.
This created a slide that I would use for a song background or maybe a scripture background.
Finally to save the slide as a photo choose file>save as> jpeg and named my file palmbkg. When the box comes up that says “do you want to export every slide” I chose every slide. This creates a folder on my computer with each slide saved as a jpg image in the folder.
As you can see this is an easy way to create background files. However you are somewhat limited to the photo effects you can use. If you do have adobe photoshop then please check out this easy to follow photoshop tutorial posted on life in student ministry. Adobe Photoshop has also just launched Adobe Photoshop Express, which is free and can be used to crop, change colors, add cool effects like blur, sharpen, and more.
Tags: Background, Free, Media Shout, Photoshop, Pictures, Powerpoint, Sunday, work, Worship
