Best practices for adding paper textures to images?

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December 29, 2022
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Should I use multiple blend modes by duplicating the texture and the image at the layers, use different blend modes for each then blend the whole in one?

Which blend mode is recommended?

Are there any actions or automated methods to optimally blend an image with a paper texture?

My paper texture as I understand must be black and white, if I don't want to add any color from the paper texture.

Are there any other tricks?

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Bojan Živković11378569

Community Expert

I will respond to other tricks question.

You may want to know for lesser known texture option from Filter > Filter Gallery > Texture > Texturizer click on hamburger icon then click Load Texture and navigate to PSD file with texture.

Chris P. BaconAuthor

Inspiring

I tried it, but it doesn't work with my PSD paper texture.

Leslie Moak Murray

Community Expert

It would help if you could post a screenshot of what you mean, but in the absence of that, one way of adding a paper texture to an image would be to open the paper image so it's on top of your image layer, and set the paper blending mode to Multiply, then play with the opacity slider to taste.

D Fosse

Community Expert

I'd use Multiply, but you will probably need to lighten it as much as possible without losing texture. For instance a clipped Levels adjustment like this. Layer 1 is the paper in Multiply: