How to recolor and how to clip a gold pattern to my overlays

Hello friends! This tutorial will show you how to recolor and how to clip a gold pattern to my overlays. The magic happens in just a few clicks! This technique will help you use your resources to create endless digital papers to match your projects.

Overlays are transparent PNG files to add texture to photos, to embellish digital pictures, or just to create digital papers.

I’m giving away a free overlay and a free glitter texture to practice this tutorial!  As you can see in the picture below, the overlay appears to be a black and white paper, however it’s not! The white areas are transparent, so the changes you make will only affect the floral design.

♥ Three ways to change the appearance of an overlay.

  • Blend it into a background: using the BLENDING MODE feature in Photoshop, you can integrate this image into any background texture to create a digital paper. You can find this tutorial here.
  • Recoloring it : you can change the color of this overlay to match your project.
  • Appling a pattern: for example, you can clip a gold texture to it.

What I will show you in this tutorial is how to recolor and how to apply a pattern in Photoshop. The freebie also includes a lovely texture! For this tutorial, you’ll need to have basic knowledge of how to work with layers in Photoshop.

YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS FREE OVERLAY HERE

♥ How to recolor an overlay in Photoshop CC

Open Photoshop and load the texture file and the overlay file in the same artboard. Make sure to place the overlay layer on top of the texture layer. If you have Photoshop CC you can also hit FILE/SCRIPTS/LOAD FILES INTO STACK to load both files at once.

Double click on the overlay layer to open the LAYER STYLE dialog box. Then click on color overlay (1) as shown below, then click on that little color box (2) to open the color picker, and finally place your cursor on top of the color picker to choose the color you want (3), then click OK.

The overlay is now recolored. All you have to do now is to right click on the overlay layer, select RASTERIZE LAYER , flatten the image LAYERS/FLATTEN IMAGE and save the file as JPEG.

♥ How to apply a pattern overlay

If instead of recoloring you want to apply a pattern overlay you need to get yourself a texture first like this glitter texture here.

Open the texture in Photoshop and hit EDIT/DEFINE PATTERN, that will store the texture in your preset library.

Then, double click on the layer overlay to open the layer style box just like we did before and instead of clicking on COLOR OVERLAY you will click on PATTERN OVERLAY.

Select the pattern you wish to apply from the library as shown below and set the scale of the pattern to 100% for high resolution mages. If you are working with a low resolution image, then you might need to set the scale of the pattern to 25% or 50%. Only scale to 25%, 50% and 100%, other values will create a blurry pattern overlay.

And here it is, the design is almost done. All you have to do is to rasterize the layer and flatten the file as mentioned above.

♥ Where to find overlays for commercial use.

I offer many overlay sets from vintage style to modern pattern overlays. Overlays and paper templates are great tools to have since you can use them to make digital papers, print on demand items, stationary, altered art and everything in between. Believe me, overlays are a must have!

You can find more overlays and paper templates from my stores at Lilmade Digitals, Lilmade Designs and CU Digitals.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and freebie! Thanks for looking and happy crafting!

xo ♥

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