Texturising images

Welcome to my tutorial on texturizing images! Here I will show you one of my favourite techniques on texturizing images.

1. Start with an image, I'm using this image

you can use the same if you like.

2. Paste it into photoshop (if you haven't already done), and then you'll need to take a texture, I'm using this one, you can find many more good textures on the textures part of adorabubble.

3. Put the texture layer underneath your main image, if it's not big enough, you can free transform it and enlarge it to fit (edit > free transform)

4. Set the top layer to pin light, and there you go, a lovely textured image! Great for layouts and avatars.

5.If you want to go even further, you can blend a couple more, here I've put in a third layer, ontop of the original texture but underneath the first, and set it to 'overlay' It features another texture from the site.

.. And this was the result:

6. And I carried on to make this a completed graphic (although a rather purposeless one) As you can see, I added a tiled pattern ontop, as well as some text and brushes.

What was your result? Please drop me a comment in the tagboard or through the contact form if you've used this tutorial! I'd really love to see your result!