My favorite texture to use:

I recently discovered a new way to put an added twist on retouching photos. It's called texturizing, or at least that's what I call it. It is the art of taking your photo and overlaying a transparent texture while stratigically erasing that texture where it interferes (like over faces). There are a few companies that advertise selling such overlaying textures, however I have found a few favorites from a free site: http://www.textureking.com/
Check out the examples. Let me know what you think of the textures! At the bottom is my FAVORITE texture to use. Feel free to try it out on your own photos and send me an email of your hard work ;)