Adding Texture with Photoshop
March 16th, 2008 | Published in Photoshop | 1 Comment
This article has a great little Photoshop tutorial on adding texture. The writer uses and illustration, but you could certainly do this with a photograph as well. Take a look.
Add Stock Textures to Images for extra ‘Oomph’
In this little Photoshop tutorial we’ll be designing a quick art piece, then we’ll be adding some texture to it, this is to demonstrate the use of texture in artwork, as you may be able to see in works from people such as GoMedia. Obviously this method will work better with some things and not so well with others, so please try to use it in moderation, if you will.
Yes, my opinion may be a little bit biased in the above image, but you know, you get the point 
1. Background Creation
Let’s start with a new document. For this Photoshop tutorial I’m using a rather puny size of 800 x 600 pixels, feel free to use a larger size though. I left the Resolution at it’s default as well, 72. I did however use CMYK color (default is RGB) for this tutorial, not sure why, but if you want the same result as mine you’ll want to change this setting.
March 16th, 2008 at 9:24 pm (#)
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