How to use Textures Tutorial

June 29, 2008 · Print This Article

This how to use textures tutorial will explain how to alter your images and add more interest to it.

This tutorial helps in many ways. Improving your knowledge of Photoshop, learning new things and how to use all types of textures to improve your designs - textures are extremely useful when you have boring images that need sprucing up.

Once you know how to do this you’ll end up tweaking it to suit your image, using different textures and discover more in Photoshop.

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Before (first image) & After (second image)

How to use Textures Tutorial - The Steps

Using textures can be extremely useful, but when starting out many people (myself included) have asked “how do I actually use these textures?” This tutorial will hopefully explain how to.

First of all, open an image you want to add a texture to - or you can download the one I have used above. Download Me!

Now open Photoshop if you haven’t already and open your own image or the one you recently downloaded. From here you can either use a texture of your choice or the one I used in the above image. If you want to use mine then download me!

Open whatever texture you are going to use in Photoshop and then select the texture - now use the copy short cut. CTRL/Command + C - then go to your image and use the pasting shortcut CTRL/Command + V

You’ll now see your texture is on-top of your image. Now you need to go to your layers pallet - if you can’t find it, press the F7 button on your keyboard and it will appear or disappear… either way, you’ll notice where it is. So, assuming you’ve found it, have a little look at it and try to locate the little drop down which currently displays the word “Normal”. Select that and change it to “Screen”.

Hopefully your image has turned out just like mine - so, using textures is a simple matter of copying a texture, pasting it onto an image and then changing the layer mode (normal/screen) to something other than “Normal”. When you want to have a play, try changing it to “Overlay” or “Soft light” - each and every one does something different and they work differently for all types of textures.

Aaannddd you’re done. I hope this tutorial was helpful and made sense - if you do have any questions regarding this “How to use Textures” Tutorial then feel free to leave a comment below and we’ll do our best to help you.

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