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How to Add Texture Overlays to your Images in Photoshop

Gary Detonnancourt

The textures used in this lesson can be downloaded from pexels.com, thanks to Aaron Kitt and Pixabay for these two textures.

Click on File - Place Embedded

Click on File - Place Embedded

Click on the handles around the image to resize it to fit.  Then hit enter on the keyboard.

Click on the handles around the image to resize it to fit. Then hit enter on the keyboard.

Click on the blend modes and roll over each one to see which one will work best for your image.

Click on the blend modes and roll over each one to see which one will work best for your image.

Paint on your mask with black set as the foreground color.  Use a soft brush and set the opacity to 70%, then paint over your subject until the texture has been sufficiently removed from your subject.

Paint on your mask with black set as the foreground color. Use a soft brush and set the opacity to 70%, then paint over your subject until the texture has been sufficiently removed from your subject.

This is my finished image after applying two different texture layers.

This is my finished image after applying two different texture layers.