Look out - he has a pick!

[morsla]

I want to pick your brains. You'll hardly feel a thing...

- How many of you lovely people have used Photoshop?
- Do any of you have experience with applying textures to create sidebars, backgrounds etc?

I'm working on Insurgent #1 over the next few days, and I want to add some fairly simple vertical and horizontal rules, sidebars, and other ease-of-reading guides for the internal pages. I have a fantastic masthead logo donated by a real designer, and I'd like to keep a visual link running through the pages with the rusted metal/rivets/bulletholes effects on the masthead. However, I currently have absolutely no idea how to go about doing so...

Proofreading and correcting text is fine; layout and typesetting are also cool. Image formats I know a little about, and don't have a huge amount of control over as I'm using many reader-submitted images that aren't great quality files. My main stumbling block is the big gap between the pictures in my head, and what the pictures look like on the screen.

Can anyone offer some advice for working with textures in Photoshop? I have Photoshop CS, and dearly want to learn more about what it's capable of...

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[morsla.livejournal.com]

I'm (slowly) learning to keep all the layers preserved until I really need to flatten them... I just have to fight the instincts that are telling me to make the files all nice and small :)