I have a couple questions about texture use.



So, ch4ndler made this:



and used this texture that she made:



So my first question is, how did she do that without having the texture completely over the image, so you can't even see what it is?

She also made these icons from these textures:



My second question is, how did she get the texture behind the heads? I'm very confused. ):

Oh, and I use Photoshop CS2. :)