Adding Texture to your Illustrations in Photoshop

A simple tutorial on adding textures, color corrections and brightness/contrast adjusts to your finished illustrations in photoshop. I personally find that when I'm done creating a character or illustration in photoshop, I like to add a few little tweaks and adjustments to the colors and add a texture just to sort of give it a bit of a finished look. It's really easy to do and I find it adds a lot to the finished piece.

You can see the final work in a side by side comparison to how it looked in the beginning here: http://beavotron.deviantart.com/#/d3d8f78
This was done in CS3, it should work in CS and higher.
If you have any questions, please post them in the comments section.

Texture used is from: http://hibbary.deviantart.com
My work: http://alexneonakis.com or http://beavotron.deviantart.com

Thanks for checking out my tutorial vids! Hopefully the sound is better on this one. If you have any requests for further photoshop or illustrator tutorials please post them in the comments.

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[brostomper]

what kind of tablet do you use for your illustrations?

[musiquedecor]

thank you for this, good to hear a tutorial that in clear english and proper instructions. you should do more.

[moyinguis]

WOW! Just what i needed, thanks so much, i was searching how to texturize only one thing without background

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[ArchiZT]

your voice is so sweet ^_^

[lastdarerer]

i have to be grateful to you, this is awesome and learnt a lot!

[timsterguy]

Great video! I really learned something.

[develophope]

Could you advise as to how to ad textures to the inner fill of a font in illustrator?

I am used to Fireworks and am finding myself constrained in illustrator.

thx

[Mrgrimm9991]

thank you i learned something new and very helpful

[dokalfar]

Absolutely amazing. The view is a little bit too small and I can't see what you're doing with the layers, but still it is awesome.