How to create texture overlays with Photoshop and a camera, even a phone
Texture overlays can transform a photo!
In this tutorial I show you how to turn a photo of a texture into a reusable pattern in Photoshop.
I also show you how to use these textures to instantly make photos (or art) look better.
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Very interesting presentation but it leaves open the essential question, when/how to use a texture. Not the mechanics, but rather the artistic use? I know this is much harder but in the end it will be infinitely more useful.
This is simply great – widening photo as an art. Appreciated.
Thank you – as always you address the artistic approach to post-processing – even we hobbyists (not professional) appreciate that artistic approach (causing us to go back to historic photos re-processing them with an eye toward story-telling, artistic moods, etc.) You are the bomb!