and I am here today to show you how to use my luxe metallic digital papers

as a photo overlay or a texture overlay

so to start off with I have this nice studio shot

and it's got a nice plain studio backdrop but I'd like to add a little

bit over visual interest to this

so I'm gonna do its use this stage opec paper pack from my website

and to start off with US Europe wanna the neutral ones a

I've color I some digital papers some other paper for a already

but I would grab the 1i the neutrals like this

and probably the darker one so I've already got that opened in Photoshop

here

one there we go so

I just wanna take my selection tool and dragged this layer

over my photo and now I need to resize it

so I'm gonna hit command T I'm on a Mac

or you could hit control teeny piranha when does I believe

that is the shortcut and holding down your shaft

you resize the earth tell you happy with it

hit return to commit and

now you've got that layer over your photo

I'm gonna go here to the blending mode and change that

overlay and already you can see

the coal effect that it has nevermind this for right now

and on this overlay mode it's nice because it keeps the shadows and

highlights behind them so it looks natural

and I'm going to just turn that offer right now

we're also gonna make a.m. color correction layer

so that we can better match be digital overlay to the color of your background

it's not going to make such a big difference on this photo cuz it's

actually kinda similar

but on other photos on you'll see it will make a difference

so this is basically an idiot he lehrer so you go over here

to your square tall and I miss gonna hold

a actually first off let my color go here the color picker

I'm just gonna pick where these Midtown's

have the tow so got that color

picked pay is my square tool gestionnaire

create that shape over it

got the color backdrop we're gonna

go over here to the layer mode change that to heal

and turn it off for now now we want to go back

turn on our digital paper overlay and we want

to or mask out this

part that's over the girl so we go to layer

layer mask reveal all

and then I'm gonna go here to my left pic

this gradient tool make sure it on the radio

make sure you've got black and I'm just gonna

easily make some little

gradients and mask that of

you can get a little more detailed if you want but this is a

miss overlays a very forgiving thing especially if you match it to your

backdrop

SanDisk annie is that and make some little gradients hold that down

just get that part that's over her

and don't worry if it's not perfect you can always go back in a just a little

bit

but I'm just using the gradient for a just a rough

roughly a mascot already looks great I mean

it's really forgiving and it matches this happens to match the background

really well

now I'm gonna go back here

that already looks really cool to me I'm gonna turn that

he layer on and you're not going to see much of a

difference on this one but I am on that this is important to go to layer

and I create clipping mask so I clip that he'll

to that digital paper elaire

so there you go you can mask that out a little bit more refined if you like

but if you match the color with that he layered the backdrop

it's pretty darn forgetting and I'm just gonna leave that up to 100 percent I

think it looks really cool

and if you see here you click this

double click your heels where you can actually change to

that he over the backdrop and this one doesn't show is a much different here

because it's a lighter backdrop but you're gonna really

see the different if you have like a darker backdrop

but it's pretty cool you can change it that's like a cool

that looks Kenny everything counts a lot of that hair like that how it is I like

the gold color

so that the first part and just for a little fun

Canada hit can get a flat my image

image here layer flatten image

I'm gonna drag descent went to my templates so

annie is this template here and as you can see a lot on my templates are really

multi-purpose

so we've got a family picture here but you know don't let that limit you

so or going affect Photoshop here take this

and got that template already open

and I'm going to drag this above the right

but the flicks a really cool I think this'll make a really gorgeous

blog traffic or something and

have got that in there I'm gonna head command he

or you could do control tea if you're on a Windows

gonna hold down the shift in resize that's a little bit

just I love this golden glamour collection I think it's just really

really pretty I love anything that shiny and sparkly

so can hit return commit that

and that looks pretty cool as you can see over here and got this

optional dark around the edges and that's going to make that border stand

out more

and I'm just going to right click here and duplicate this layer

because I want that little

edge to be more dramatic he could even do it again

a little more now I don't think I'll have that one out like that

and there you go you can use this as a

seen your style inspiration use this as a blog graphic

use this as a Facebook marketing graphic but I think it looks really great

so there you go and

that was just using two my templates so I hope you enjoyed this tutorial

and come back for more