Here is a final result I acheived that is very simple and wanted to encourage you to let your creativity flow and use images for mixed media purposes.
First I started with a pretty boring image I took at my folks house a couple years ago. I will post a full size image of it in the group for you to download if you would like to follow along. I liked to use this image as it gave me some good space for the sky to show through, and just enough of a home feel to the windmill.
Then I found this texture on the flickr texture commons files here...http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancee_art/4000232561/
I will also post this texture in the group files for you to obtain.
First open the windmill picture in your version of photoshop
File>open>img 4034 (wherever you downloaded it to--some just download to the desktop for easy retrieval)
That is the first huge step! Now....again, we're going to go to file>place>texture image (whatever number it downloads as and wherever you download it to)
It will come up with an X across the center, this allows you to adjust it right away, rt click on the little handles, then hold and drag up until it covers the whole image. Do the same thing with the bottom.
In elements now you will see a little green check mark in the lower left corner, in PSCS you just hit enter to commit the size.
Now we will go over to the layers palette on the bottom right of your screen in Elements, and in the middle of the screen many times in the middle right of your screen. Just above the palette there is a drop down menu will say "normal" you will want to click on the down arrow here. I always then scroll through each of the layer blend mode options to find one you like.
This time I liked how it looked with the layer blend mode at Hard light to achieve the effect I got here.
That's it! The idea with this type of thing is to create a mood and feel with multiple images layered with textures and objects, a similar feel to other mixed media.
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