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Thousands of people have downloaded the FREE Texture Applicator Photoshop Actions Set since its release just over a month ago. But now there’s another reason to celebrate! Finally, a video tutorial teaching you how to use this photoshop action to add textures to your photos. Sometimes texture is just too much for skin, so I will also teach you how to mask off texture from selective parts of the image.

To use this action you will want to find some great textures. You can also download the one used in this video made by Jessica Drossin Photography.

Thank you to Heather Armstrong and Lisa Gilbert Photography for allowing me to use their beautiful photos in this video.

Free Photoshop Textures: If you love using texture on your images, then you do not want to miss these links.  Below are 50 Amazing Free Photoshop Texture Websites with thousands of free textures that you can download and use in your photography.

If you love textures, be sure to download the FREE MCP Texture Applicator Action, a Photoshop action that adds textures to your photos.  Just download textures from these sites and use the action to apply them to your images. Compatible with both Photoshop CS2, CS3 and CS4, as well as Elements, you are sure to keep busy…

Also please make sure to join the MCP Textures Flickr Group to download more free textures and share some of your own.

Please make sure to check the terms of use for each artist prior to use.

Free Textures

1. MCP Textures Flickr Group
2. CG Textures
3. Bittbox
4. Lost and Taken
5. Shadow House Creations
6. Texture King
7. Bash Corpo
8. Digital Wedding Forum
9. Texture Lovers
10. Circle Box Blog
11. Deviant Art
12. Morgue File
13. Desizntech
14. Art Fans
15. Mayang’s Free Texture Library
16. Love Textures
17. Smashing Magazine Textures
18. Texture Well
19. 2 Textured
20. Texturez
21. Texture Pop
22. Image Abstraction
23. Web Design Ledger: Textures
24. Web Design Ledger: Patterns
25. Web Design Ledger: Grunge
26. Web Design Ledger: Vintage
27. E Scrappers
28. Texture Warehouse
29. Ace Info Way India
30. Blueblots
31. Scarletbits
32. Tutzone
33. PSD Fan
34. Trip Wire Magazine
35. Design M
36. Graphic Tutorials
37. Tofuroius: Textures
38. Tofurious: Grunge Textures
39. Texture Vault
40. Urban Dirty
41. Skeletal Mess on Flickr
42. High Resolution Textures on Flickr
43. Pareeerica on Flickr
44. JoesSistah on Flickr
45. Les Brumes on Flickr
46. Pink Sherbet Photography on Flickr
47. Eddi 07 on Flickr
48. NinianLif on Flickr
49. TTV Dust on Flickr
50. Lepiaf.Geo on Flickr
51. Nomads: Will Create on Flickr

Video Tutorial on Adding Texture to Your Images in Photoshop: