Texture Layers

For this texture project, I went outside and took ten pictures that involved a lot of texture. Next I imported those images to LR and edited them mostly with tone curve and exposure and highlights, shadows, and midtones. Next, I exported the one I wanted, the bricks to the desktop. I then chose a picture that I'd taken previously this year of my dog on a trail and imported that to LR and edited it with the same things I edited the texture photos with. Next I imported the dog photo to PS and changed the size to 9 by 6. Next I imported the picture of the bricks to PS and changed the size to 9 by 6 also. Then, I selected all, copied and pasted the bricks to the dog photo. Then while in the bricks layer, I went to layer, layer styles, the to blending options. In blending options I changed opacity to 35%. Last, I created a layer mask for the bricks in layer, and clicked on the paint brush and changed the size to 63 and the color to black. Then I painted over my dog. To me this made my dog look like it was popping out and 3-D.