I took the original image of Skylar during a lighting workshop. I was considering dropping in a different background, when I remembered a talk I attended given by a lady who mentioned she had a collection of "textures." Her blended images with "textures" were extraordinary. So I headed off to the precast concrete yard and collected some "textures" of my own.
The image on the left hand side is my original portrait of Skylar and the image on the right hand side is a slab of precast concrete
This is the result when I blended the two using the Overlay blend mode. I masked out the texture over the face and skin but left the remainder.
I know some people may say there is a yellow cast over the image, but that is the effect of the "texture" and I like the warmth it adds to the final image.