Vanessa Pike-Russell

One of the wonderful thing about Adobe Photoshop (and clones) is that you can add layers of textures over the image you are editing and adjust the opacity and blend mode to create wonderful textures, mood and story to your image.

First convert the images that you wish to use as texture layers to Adobe Photoshop Files (.psd) either by using ‘File: Save As” and saving to your “Program Files>Adobe>Adobe Photoshop CS3>Presets>Textures” folder or move your .jpg images to the same folder and then do a batch conversion using “File>Scripts>Image Processor” and convert to .psd’s, selecting Textures as both the source and destination folder. Your textures can now be accessed using

“Filters>Texture>Texturizer”

and loading the textures you want by clicking the triangle.

Another method is to open the image you wish to edit and then open the texture and copy and paste the image (Edit: select all) and paste it into the image you wish to texturise.

Perhaps easier is using the ‘Place’ feature.

File>Place

and browse to find the layer you wish to place. Once done, you will see the image is a new layer over the old one and you can resize to fit the image as you wish. You can then change the blend mode as needed. For the example below I used Hard Light blend (default is Normal) and 50% opacity.

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Before and after

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Some samples of my work edited with layers of textures by ghostbones

Resources:
Adobe Photoshop CS4 demo

Ghostbones textures (now hosted via telzey’s flickr account with permission of ghostbones who has deleted his account

Textures for Layers Flickr Pool

More tutorials at my site
http://www.vanessapikerussell.com.au