Texture overlays in Photoshop....

[specialman]

Anyone know of any good online tutorials about overlaying textures onto images?

Got some flyers/posters to design for a bar and need a bit of additional pazzazz

 

[Kerioak]

I don't know of any tutorials but the "overlay" option can be very useful and if you don't like the result with that try some of the others as you get some interesting effects

 

[swanseamale47]

Play around with the layer blend modes, as stated above overlay is a popular choice but they will vary with image, you can also ajust the opacity.
If your planning on doing it a lot you might want to check out totally rad dirty pictures (not what it sounds) is a plug-in for adding textures.

 

[swanseamale47]

double post sorry

 

[griffis007]

I like the look of the totally rad presets.

 

[swanseamale47]

I like the look of the totally rad presets.

It is good, it also has the advantage of showing you a preview of how your pic will look and it comes with some textures built in, although you can add more.

 

[DorsetDude]

Theres a good Gavin Hoey video on youtube where he wraps a union jack from one pic over someones arm in another. Is that the sort of thing you're after?

 

[swanseamale47]

Theres a good Gavin Hoey video on youtube where he wraps a union jack from one pic over someones arm in another. Is that the sort of thing you're after?

Not quite the same, thats a displacement map where it looks like the pattern/whatever is actually printed on the tee shirt, the textures the OP is talking about is added as another layer (often overlay blend mode) and adds a sort "grunge" effect.