Hi Guys,
One of the biggest "new" things I've seen in my business (wedding/portrait) has been texture overlays. Jesh De Rox, known for his texture work got a Record 36 wins in WPPI last year, and all of the images had an overlay.
It's certainly not a prerequisite to selling portraits, but seniors and couples seem to eat them up.
They are impacting our art in a big way, so I wanted to share with everyone how they are done.
Please let me know if you have any questions I haven't answered:
1. Open the image you want to work with.
2. Open a second texture image. (Free ones can be found at
Free Textures from TextureKing and adobe exchange)
3. Click on the texture image, so that it is selected. Then using the shift key, drag it over your portrait image. (Sorry guys don't know how to do this tutorial using a MAC)
4. You will see that you now have two layers on the original image. The first layer is the photo, and the second is the texture. Make sure you have the texture layer selected and go to the top left part of your layers pallet, and you will see a draw down box which currently says "Normal". Click on that, and then use your down arrow key. It will start scrolling through your options. I chose "Hard Light" (Note my screen capture on the far right side)
