Join Nigel French for an in-depth discussion in this video Adding texture, part of Designing a Typographic Art Nouveau Poster.
…On the left our work in progress.…On the right our finished version.…The two are somewhat different.…I've changed things a bit second time around.…What we want to do now is add some texture to finish this piece.…I'm going to close the original so that…we can Maximize our document within the document window.…Press Cmd or Ctrl+0 to center it.…I'm then going to come to the Layers panel and hide…the source layer so that we don't see those distracting elements.…I will create a new layer, and this new layer is going to contain my texture.…
I'm now going to switch to my web browser and…visit texturepalace.com, from where I will download a paper texture.…So I'm going to come to the search field.…Since I already have downloaded this texture,…I know that it's number is 100822.…It's this one at bottom right.…I'll click on that, scroll down, click on it again to load it into its own window.…Right-click>Save Image As.…
I'll then open the image in Photoshop, which brings me to where I am now.…And in Photoshop I'm going to apply a black…
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