CoffeeShop "Fine Art Texture Tutorial" for Photoshop/PSE!

Today I wanted to walk you through a quick and easy texture tutorial using my newest Bredon Hill textures.

(original image)

Add the Bredon Hill brown texture in Overlay blending mode.

Add a Levels adjustment layer and darken the image by moving the middle gamma slider under the curve to the right and the Output Levels white slider to the left. Then slide the highlight slider slightly to the left.

I used a soft, low-opacity, black brush on the layer mask to remove some of this layer off the bird.

To darken the image even more but add some light around the bird, I added another Levels adjustment layer in Multiply blending mode, 61% Opacity and used the layer mask to remove it off of the bird.

Here is another example using similar settings. (original image)

Hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial!

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