Text-Based Tutorials
These written tutorials will get you up-to-speed quickly so that you can begin getting wildly creative with textures.
What Sort of Photo is Best for Blending with a Texture?
How Do I Tile a Seamless Texture?
How Can I Reposition a Seamless Texture?
Is it Okay to Scale a Texture Up In Size? If So, How Much?
The Overlaid Texture is Too Prominent. How Can I Make It Less So?
The Texture is Corrupting the Photo’s Color. How Can I Fix This?
How Can I Hide Just Part of a Texture?
How Can I Make a Texture Appear More Prominent?
How Can I Shift the Color of a Montaged Texture?
How Do I Deal with Muddy Highlights?
How Can I Apply Texture to a Mask?
How Do I Deal with Color Space Mismatches?
I’m a Photographer. How Can the Designers’ Textures Collections Benefit Me?
Where Can I Find Great Textures?
Creating a Painterly Texture CollageVideo Tutorials
If you prefer to learn via video tutorial rather than with written words, or if (like me) you just can't seem to get your fill of texture inspiration and education, here are some video tutorials that may appeal to you…
Photoshop Workbench 350: Movie Title Treatment Using Textures and Layer Styles
Photoshop Workbench 348: Taming Light
Photoshop Workbench 336: Repeated Image Composite
Photoshop Workbench 333: Creating Smoke
Photoshop Workbench 329: Dramatic Flying Particles
Photoshop Workbench 318: Limitless Custom Borders Using Nothing But Textures and Refine Edge
Photoshop Workbench 317: Transforming a Photo into an Illustration
Photoshop Workbench 315: Creativity with Textures
Photoshop Workbench 291: Multiple Blend Mode Montage using the Pattern Stamp Tool
Photoshop Workbench 285: Generating a Seamlessly Tiled Texture in Filter Forge for Montaging with Photoshop
Photoshop Workbench 283: Generating a Distressed Mask with Filter Forge and Photoshop
Photoshop Workbench 260: Creating a Mirrored Texture for a Multi-Image Montage
Photoshop Workbench 217: Creating a Found Object Composite
Photoshop Workbench 192: Achieving the Grunge Look
Photoshop Workbench 142: Creative Edges and Textures Without Using a Mask
Photoshop Workbench 140: An Exercise in Creative MontagingPhotoshop Impressionism Video Tutorial Series Download