How Do You Add Texture With Photoshop Lighting Effects?
You can create numerous lighting effects with Photoshop’s Lighting Effects filter. You can do even more than illuminate, however. You also can add texture and dimension. With a little preparation you can apply just about any textured surface. Open any texture image in Photoshop. Make sure the file size and resolution is as big or bigger than the image you want to use for lighting effects. You can find a number of textures in the Textures presets folder that ships with the application or you can download high-resolution textures from stock image sites on the web. Load the image file you want to edit. Drag and drop the texture layer into the image file. Scale it down to the size you want the texture to show. It shouldn’t be smaller than the surface you want to light. Position the texture over the object you will be using for the lighting effect. Select the entire layer if the texture area is now smaller than the image and feather the selection edge by 5 or 6 pixels. Invert the selection
