Well, Remco's bg has caused various questions about his texturing, some members thought they were photos, some just liked them. So I made a new tutorial to share the method with other AGSers too. Just check the tut out and tell me if I missed something or what do you think about it at all. C&C as we call it!
http://www.hot.ee/increator/textures.htm
I made an exact same tutorial for Remco, and I'm also using brush transparency 10%, and stroking randomly, though I use The Gimp. It's a good basic tutorial though.
this may be useful