So, I'll go back to the Blend Mode menu, and I'll choose Overlay. On this pair of images, I liked the look of the Overlay Blend Mode. And if you want to move the other way up the menu, hold the Shift key and press the minus key on your keyboard. And if you look at the Layers panel, you'll see the names on the layer Blend Mode changing as I do this. And each time you press and release the plus key, the next Blend Mode down in the menu is applied. Then hold down the Shift key as you press the plus key which is at the top of your keyboard. Go to the Tools panel, and select the Move tool. But here's a bonus tip: there's a quicker way to try out different Blend Modes and that's to cycle through them using this shortcut. And you could go through clicking each Blend Mode in the Blend Mode menu, to test it out on your image combo. Let's try Soft Light, which is similar to Overlay but more subtle. Photoshop is just blending the colors and tones in the Texture2 layer with those on the Background layer just below. For example, we could click on the Overlay Blend Mode to see how it looks on this image. One way to do that is to just click on a Blend Mode in this menu to apply it.

So rather than try to predict what will happen if you choose a particular Blend Mode, the easiest thing to do is just try them out on the images you are using. The results depend on the images you're using.

Each Blend Mode is a different formula for blending the colors on the selected layer with the colors on any layers below. Here you'll find a list of many Blend Modes to choose from. Make sure that new Texture2 layer is selected, and then to apply a layer Blend Mode, go to this drop-down menu at the top of the Layers panel. Because we use the Place Embedded method of adding an image, Photoshop automatically made a new layer for the textured photo.

To finish placing the texture image, I'll go up to the Options bar and click the Checkmark. It's a good idea to capture images like this when you happen to see them, so that you have a collection of textures to work with in Photoshop. This is just a photo that I snapped of a wall. Like this one from the practice files for this tutorial. go to the File menu, and choose Place Embedded. The first step is to add another image, an image of a texture.

To start, open this photograph from the downloadable practice files for this tutorial or a photo of your own. One of the many situations in which Blend Modes are useful is to add a textured look to an image. Layer Blend Modes are a quick way to blend 2 images together.

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