This apparently is the closet that Peter will give to a tut so i thought it wise to post here so that we all know where it is There are some great versions of his sketch scattered around the photo art site, there are some
here, here and here

anyway this is his workflow in his own words

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over the past week i have been messing around making some textures and here are a few

If you wish to use them in conjunction with the texturizer filter you will need to save them as psd's

and dont forget you can also colourize them using the hue/saturation filter for a different look

have fun

Palms

hope they are of use to you

dont forget you can alter the colour
by (in ps) picking the colour you want with the colour picker then

image> adjustment > hue/saturation
check the colorize box
then alter lightness saturation to your taste

Palms

Here are some backgrounds that i made instead of making a different one each image
hope they are of some use to someone

Palms

Here is a action i made from Joeven's workflow for this technique which can be found in this thread
post #30
thanks a lot Joe.
please remember all that i did was make it into a action joe done all the hard work

Joe has pointed out to me that after both times of the diffuse being used you should reduce the opacity to exactly 50% ( i have altered the wording in the action to accomodate this)

After some experimenting i have found on portraits...