TEXTURIZING PICTURES FOR PHOTOSHOP NOOBS.

May 11, 2009 at 3:12 pm | Filed under camwhorage, ditz drivel

Some days ago, Mara asked on Filipina Flickrites how to apply textures on pictures without covering certain parts of the subject. Mine’s a quick and dirty process (which is the same way I go about adding vignettes to my pictures) but it does the job. Here’s what I do:

Let’s take this picture of this hipster wannabe (one who has spent too many hours reading diet pill reviews):

Drag/paste the texture on to a new layer:

Change the blend mode to whichever looks best (I usually set mine to multiply):

Hit U to bring up the shape tool and choose the rounded rectangle (or whichever) and adjust the radius as you please:

Right click and choose "make selection":

Set the feather value (the higher the number, the softer):

Backspace to delete!

Ta-da!

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