Blend pattern into color

[silverdust]

If I had like a face and wanted to place something like this pattern here

 

on it and blend it in. How can I achieve that with AD or AP?

[Alfred]

Position the face image on top of the texture image and experiment with the various blend modes (applied to the upper layer) in the Layers panel. 'Overlay' is an obvious choice, but 'Multiply' and 'Hard Light' can also yield good results.

[silverdust]

Thanks Alfred but blend mode of what effect exactly?

[Alfred]

Apologies for the confusion! I wasn't actually referring to effects: I should have said "layer blend modes" rather than just "blend modes". Go to the Layers panel, select the upper layer and then choose something other than 'Normal' from the dropdown list next to the Opacity control at the top of the panel.

[jer]

Not clear from the question but SilverDust might also want to mask it so the texture is contained just within the face boundary. Depending on the objective.

[jer]

Not clear from the question but SilverDust might also want to mask it so the texture is contained just within the face boundary. Depending on the objective.

 

Here is an example (link) .afphoto of both methods - the layer groups are named so just click in the visibility boxes to see/hide the method.

 

http://www.fileconvoy.com/dfl.php?id=ge4777a2ea2195ba999997533007b4ad87d8ecb490

 

The file that can be retrieved with the above link is: blend-texture-and-face.afphoto (44.016 MB). The file will be available on the FileConvoy.com server for the next 10 days.

 

 

     Just blend:               Blend & Mask

           

[silverdust]

Thanks @Alfred @jer . Alfred's solution was what I needed but jet's link was like an extra prize and I'm grateful. This would be useful