Applying textures to pictures using photoshop?

does anyone know of any good tutorials for applying textures to photos for icons on photoshop cs3 extended? i have a tutorial:

http://crazykira-resources.deviantart.co...

that uses textures but i don't know how to

a) get the textures on photoshop

b)apply them to an image

I would appreciate any tutorials or help. thanks. (prefferably some with pictures since i'm somewhat new to photoshop)

Applying textures to pictures using photoshop?kawasaki

you import the textures into your materials palette(colors, gradients, textures, fills, etc...) and apply them from there, you can choose a color for the textures and the opacity. Hope this helps

mavin