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Step Two:
Next, open the background texture you want to add to your image (this particular background is one I downloaded from Adobe Stock. They’re a pretty
solid source for background textures. You have probably a thousand or more to choose from cheap, but you can also find completely free background
textures online all day long—just Google “Free Background Textures”). Once it’s open, press Command-A (PC: Ctrl-A) to select the entire image (it
literally puts a rectangular selection around the whole image), and copy it into memory by pressing Command-C (PC: Ctrl-C; we’re going to do a
standard copy-and-paste).

Step Three:
Return to your portrait image, and then press Command-V (PC: Ctrl-V) to Paste your texture image into this document on its own separate layer. Now,
you’re going to change the layer blend mode of this layer (from the pop-up menu near the top left of the Layers panel), so it blends into the portrait image.
There are three layer blend modes that generally work well for adding a background texture: (1) Overlay seems to look the best most consistently, as it