Right, this will be a tutorial for "Laminated Effect" "Shine Effect" "Katy's Favourite Black And White Editing Stuff" and... yeah. Maybe I should call it "Enhancing Black".

Either way, this method can do several things. I personally use it the most for making a bunch of black and white icons look the same. Before we go through the tutorial, I'm going to drop a few hints - the first is to save this as a .pdf. An action won't work, since it requires opening up a texture and pasting it onto the image. I'll enclose a .pdf, but yeah. Remember that. The second tip is how to turn coloured images into black and white ones. If you use this tutorial to edit yours, it'll look weird when they come out in colour. If that's what you want, before we start this tutorial, open your image and do this:
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