Below is a visual example of how you can change the tones of your mountains.  I used The Empty Room and Patina to blend with Purple Mountain Majesty to achieve the results shown.  Changing color tones like this enables you to make a wide variety of art with the same background!  Experiment with it and share your results with me on The Daily Texture Facebook page ... I'd love to see what you come up with.  :)

For Today's Daily Texture, I decided to play with a landscape photo and see how this texture would transform a scene.  The original, drab, gray photo of this old barn was taken just as winter was setting in here in Tennessee.  I could have easily worked this photo into a winter scene {and I may still do that!}, but today I wanted to see how this texture could be applied to change things up.  I layered the texture on first as a multiply layer and set it to 70%.  Which looked pretty cool, but I wanted to have more brightness to indicate a sunset.  So I layered the texture on top again, and set it to overlay at 70%, which brightened things up more.  Then I decided to add some flying birds.  I like adding birds to these scenes, as it gives a sense of movement, like something is happening in the scene.  At this time of day, the birds would be very active, as they find their last bits of food and head into the deserted barn to roost for the night.  I've created a PNG file of silhouettes of flying birds {which is a free file for you to download...it's at the bottom of this post!}.  I copied and pasted the PNG file on top of my completed image as a new layer, and I resized it to be smaller.  I placed the birds in between the barn and the trees and set their layer opacity to 80% so they wouldn't be such a harsh black.  Then I selected the bottom row of flying birds from that layer and cut them out.  I pasted those cut out birds onto a new layer and placed them behind the open barn doorway, and I set their opacity a bit lower...I think it was about 60%.  This made that layer of birds appear to be more in the hazy background...as if they were further away, which they would be if they were behind the barn.

You know those subjects you've photographed on bright days in harsh sunlight?  Now you can turn them into a totally different kind of look using this texture "Carter's Wheat Field In The Moonlight".  I've shown the before photos of both of these images below, so you can see what I mean.  For the little colt, I masked out his background leaving just a tiny, tiny bit of the flowers showing behind him.  I then duplicated the texture layer and placed it on top, setting it to hard light at 50%, but then I masked off most of that layer, leaving only the part around his feet and legs in place.  This helped to darken that area and tie him into the ground better.

For the calf, I reversed the texture because the light needed to be coming from the right side of him (look at the shadows in the original photo...the shadows by his feet are toward the left, which means the light is coming from the right).  After masking out most of his background, I placed the original texture on top and set it to multiply at 30%.  I duplicated that texture layer again, and set it to color dodge at 30% which gave him that little pop of extra brightness I felt he needed.

When I created Today's Daily Texture "Berries In The Dark", I really wasn't sure what photos I would use it with.  Surprisingly, the first two photos I chose worked out very well!  I chose the Irish Setter photo because of the lovely red tones in his fur which I knew would blend well with the tones in the texture.  I masked away his background revealing the texture underneath, and then I duplicated the texture layer and placed it on top, setting it to soft light at 50%.  I desaturated that duplicate texture layer to keep the color tones in place, yet utilize the lighting change from using that soft light layer.  The dandelion was a fast one...it only took me a few minutes.  The background for the flowering weed was a blurred dark brown, and it was very easy to mask away.  I followed the same process by duplicating the texture and setting it to soft light on top, but this time I set it to only 30%.  I desaturated that as well.  I'm so thrilled with this texture, I think I'll do one more image with it today!