Blending textures and photographs.

http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~bmz1082/web.jpg

Here's an image I'm working on for class. The original copy is 7.5' x 10' with 230ppi which will be printed. The problem is, I'm trying to find a way to blend my girlfriend into this "busy" texture. Right now she's just on top of the texture with 75% opacity (so far the different blend modes just looked funny). Because the texture is so busy, I don't think there will be an easy way out ... but I'm open for comments, or perhaps a whole different texture. For this one I just did some difference clouds, ran EyeCandy swirl, then changed the hue... so it's nothing fancy.

After that, I'll be throwing in some congested text.. like brev87's sig. Any fast way of multiplying the text like that?

Thanks.

try playing with the blending options on the layer of your girlfriend. it will blend the image of her into the texture. (multiply/screen/overlay) at the top of the layers pallette.
maybe try changing the perspective or blurring on parts of the texture layer so its not so consistent and repeating on the whole image. just a suggestion:D