It's the **Paper, Canvas & Other Texture Overlay section** that stumps me...  What versions of photoshop are you using?  I'm using CS3 and there's nothing called **Paper, Canvas & Other Texture Overlay section** in it but I'm thinking maybe that's something in a newer version?  It almost sounds like he just used overlays that he put over the image on new layers and played with the blending mode of those layers.  Overlays are like images of textures or other that you'd paste on a new layer.  So he would have used an overlay of impasto brush strokes, an overlay of a watercolor painting with salt and an overlay of cracked paint.  When he says he changed the overlay to linear light, if you double click on a layer a window pops up, here's an image cause it's worth a thousand words...  ;)  When you change the blending mode to something other then normal and play with the opacity percentage, you get a variety of effects. 

If that's what he did, I have no idea where he got the overlays from, maybe they come with a newer version of photoshop...  :unsure:  He also doesn't say what blending mode he would have use for the other two overlays, that confuses me too...

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