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Blend textures

Blend textures - Photoshop Tutorial

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Blend textures

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- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show how we can apply texture through the use of layer blend modes. This is my finished state. I have two layers. I'll turn off the top layer. Here is my starting image and to this, I have added this layer of texture. It is in the overlay blend mode and I've chanced the opacity to 70%. I have also applied a smart filter to this layer which is converting the colors of the texture to black and white. So now let's move to the starting state of the file and the first thing I'll do is come to the file menu and choose place embedded. I'll choose my texture file and place. I'll now adjust the proportions of this so that it's at the same aspect ratio as the image itself, and to do that I'm holding down option or alt and dragging from one of the edges. Press enter or return to commit to that and I can now experiment with my blend modes. There are certain blend modes that typically will work better than others. They are multiply for a darkening effect, screen…

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