Add textures to an image for a dramatic effect in photoshop tutorial.
June 14, 2008
Filed under PHOTO RETOUCHING, PHOTOSHOP, TUTORIALS
In this tutorial, we’re going to take this image :

And make it look like the following one thanks to a texture, blending modes and layer masks :

This process works best for images with a grayish neutral background, so I took one shot during a cloudy day.
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