Quote: "thats a pretty good texture, just create a new layer that is a certain colour and place it above that layer, then set the new layer as an overlay and your set!"
Will do.
Quote: "i have been working an making a realistic grungy metal texture in photoshop, i havent made it from scrath though, i used the built in greyscale metal texture, then used the technique i mention above before adding the grunge by using a brush that is spread out over a large are and is made up of different sizes, rotations, and transparencies"
I'll keep this in mind.
Quote: "i took a photo of my own hand, and used ctrl+click to trace vertices around the photo"
Whenever try to use the ctrl+click on an image it doesn't make any vertices.