306 Adding texture to your hand stamp

…Alright gang, in this movie we're going to take those brush paths from…Illustrator that are now expressed as a smart object here inside Photoshop.…And we're going to give them a texture to…convey the appearance of an actual hand stamp.…And to pull that off, we need some kind of texture to start with.…And the kind of texture you'll need is not like a metal texture or a wood texture.…You need a plain old paper texture because that's what's really happening, right?…When you take a rubber hand stamp and you apply it to…a piece of paper the texture is coming from the paper itself.…

And even a low contrast paper texture like this is going…to work because it's got a lot of action inside of it.…The trick is that we just need gray scale information and nothing more.…So you might as well switch over to the channels panel.…And figure out which one of the channels has the most contrast associated with it.…And nine times out of ten the answer is going to be…green, because the green channel more often than not, is your detail channel.…