by Sean Setters
Several years ago I started snapping pictures of various objects with unique, interesting looking textures and patterns which I would place in an appropriately named "Textures" folder on my hard drive. The purpose of this folder was to have a personal collection of images I could pull from whenever I wanted to create an image with an overlay. And while I don't utilize the images in my textures collection very often, I'm really glad that I have texture/overlay options available whenever an image looks like it would benefit from an additional layer of interest.
Below are just some of the images in my Textures folder. Looking at the file names, they were all likely captured on the same outing with the camera.
So which awesome image did I use to create the texture in the image above? That would be this one.
Processing the Image
To get the image above, I added the texture layer to the top of my already-edited portrait photo in Photoshop CC and proceeded through the following steps:
To see a larger resolution sample of the image, click on the picture atop this post.
Do you already have a textures collection? If so, what items have you saved in it that I didn't mention above?
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