This tutorial illustrates how to use a Rustic Background as a texture. If you would like to try it for yourself you can download the .PSD files for this tutorial here.

Step 1

Open an image. The one we will use here is an old shot of some power lines on a ridge.

Step 2

Open the moon image. Left click and hold on the moon and drag it into the powerline image. Drag the moon layer below the powerline layer and set the layer blending mode to HardLight. Now click on the powerline layer and set the blending mode to LinearLight.

Step 3

Open a Rustic Background. I chose Rustic Wall Background #22 from Rustic Walls Volume 6. Under the Image menu select Image Size and change the size of the Rustic Wall image to match the size of the powerline image. In this case 1200x1600. Click OK.

Step 4

Left click and hold in the Rustic Wall image while holding down the shift key(centers the image) and drag it into the powerline image. NOTE: the Rustic Background is the top layer. Set the layer blending mode to HardLight. The second layer down is the powerline image and it's blending mode should be LinearLight. The last layer down is the moon.

Step 5

Now lets add some snap to the image. Click on the rustic layer to make it active. Press CTRL-L to bring up the levels dialog. Drag the Rightmost slider to 194 and the middle slider to 0.90.