Texture Tuesday x's 2/Touch up Tuesday

Kim Klassen over at Kim Klassen Cafe hosts a blog thing every Tuesday called Texture Tuesday. She even provides you with free textures if you sign up to her mailing list and of course I did! You can have lots of fun with textures when you learn how to manage your layers. Which I am still learning and pretty much lost the whole freaking time. Nonetheless I try. To me that is what matters. This week she wanted us to use 2 of her textures so I chose her Paper love

Then I chose the Shine

 Then I blended them two together using overlay then I chose my image

And this is what I come up with

This is where my question come in, how come my image did not adjust to the size of the background texture?? This is where I get somewhat confused. Anyway I went on over to light room, cropped and messed with the lighting and my final photo is this,

When I was editing this photo earlier I knew I wanted to add a texture to it. I am satisfied with how it looks. How about you? And can someone give me some more "tutoring" on how come my image was not the same size? Why did I have to crop it?




A couple of hours later:
Okay guys I think I got it. I must have been having a total brain fart! Geez, when you put your image on top of another you can adjust the size right there. Ugh I feel like an idiot. 
So I went about this again but I chose the textures simplicity and Shine and this is what I came up with this time. 

THIS POST IS LINKED UP TO:

Texture Tuesday

Touch Up Tuesday

Tuesday Dragonfly

I am very pleased to be participating in 5 different blog hops this Tuesday. I figured it was a great way to meet new bloggers and show off my picture.

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Show Off Your Shot

Tones on Tuesday

Tuesday Tips & Pics

Touch Up Tuesday

Texture Tuesday

Okay here is my before picture of a dragonfly that I snapped over the weekend

Here I used PhotoShops Lightroom 4 and added the  Medium Contrast Curve to the picture

Then I proceeded to enhance the picture to the Aged Photo setting in Lightroom 4

Now here I save the photo and switch over to my Photo Elements 10. I decided to add a texture to this photo. I have never done this before so I thought it might be fun.

I went to the texturizer and chose burlap with 109% scaling with the relief being set at 4 and this is my result.

I was happy with the result. I thought about adding a frame but decided it would be just to much. 

I think I actually like this texturized :-) Do not be afraid to tell me what you think.