Textures Tutorial

I've been getting emails from some of you asking me how do I get the blurry scratchy effect on my photos. I'm not sure what the technique is official named, but I like to call it Texturizing. What I do is, I apply a texture layer onto my photos. Which is certainly so damn easy. So, here's a little tutorial on how to texturize your photos :}

I personally retouch my photos using Photoshop CS2. But any Photoshop version is able to do this trick. (Click the step if you need to see how it looks like on screen)

1) Drag the texture to your photo.
2) Decrease the Opacity to any desired amount (my usual opacity range is 30%-50%)
3) Adjust the contrast using the Curves tool.
4) From this step, you can adjust the color tone to whatever you like or just let it be (for this photo I made it black & white with one of my actions)
5) Merge the layers by choosing Flatten Image.
6) Save file, and you're done! Yeaaah!

As I said, it's so simple. You can download the texture I used here. But cool textures can be found all over the internet or even in your own hard disk. Try browsing here, and try any kind of textures. Don't be limited by only my 6 steps above, try to create something new, explore all the tools! And most definitely, have fun! Ciao!

Model : Jason. Texture by Sanami276.

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