Adobe Photoshop Tutorial: Painted Edges

We're almost done. Just a couple more quick steps to go.

Step 12: Change The Blend Mode Of The "Canvas" Layer To "Multiply"

In order to see our image through the canvas texture, we're going to change the blend mode of the "Canvas" layer. Go up to the blend mode options at the top of the Layers palette, click on the down-pointing arrow to the right of the word "Normal", and select Multiply from the list:

As soon as we do that, our image becomes visible behind the texture:

Step 13: Lower The Opacity Of The "Canvas" Layer

The texture effect is too intense though, so let's reduce it, and we can do that by lowering the opacity value of the layer. Go up to the Opacity value in the top right corner of the Layers palette, click your mouse directly on the word "Opacity" to bring up Photoshop's "scrubby sliders", then drag your mouse to the left to lower the opacity. I'm going to lower mine quite a bit, down to 30%:

And there we go, here's my final result with the painted edges effect and the canvas texture lowered to an opacity value of 30%:

The effect is complete. Save your Photoshop .PSD file at this point, since we can now use it as a template to quickly add this same effect to other photos, as we'll see in the final section of this tutorial.