This will prolly sound stupid coming from a person who has made graphics for so long..... But what is a texture...?

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As far as I can explain without going too much into detail, a texture is a 'picture' of sorts that you can use to give your graphics color and 'texture'. For instance, you see the grungy kind of effect on my bottom Eragon banner? That's caused by a texture.

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A texture is basically that. Its an effect used to make a picture stranger, kinda, like in my Gerard waay one

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Is what you've seen too much to take, or are you blind and seeing nothing?
(I saw you run) I saw you run away
Is what I've done too much to take or are you scared of being nothing?

A texture is something that basically gives a picture, well, texture! For example, if I make a banner and I feel like something is missing, I can add a texture to give a vintage kind of look. A lot of the textures I use are set to Overlay or Softlight, but you can set them to anything you want.
Sites like Misplaced Moments, Hybrid Genesis and Textura provide good textures.

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A texture gives a picture color and texture. Basically.

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You just put the texture on top of a picture and set it to a layer mode.

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Layer mode is... like the screen, or hard light or what ever?

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Uh huh, thats right. Or you can use them as bases for your graphics, and put the picture on top of them, then crop out the background.

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Thanks all!

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