Its very often underrated but a good use of the burn tool is what seperates a good texture from an OK one, I haven't used it a lot in the past and always wondered why my graphics looked so flat. Sure the burn tool can't turn an image into 3D art but it can give a mixture of light and darkness to your image and background and add a texture that enriches your graphic Just take a look at the difference between the above textures, the first is done without applying the burn tool and the second is worked on using the burn tool, they both come from the same texture but one looks richer in color, one looks more enhanced and more texturized and at the end of the day any Graphic is just as good as its background The Burn tool settings are pretty simple , you choose the brush size and type of brush , you choose the Exposure (Intensity) of your burn and the range (That is what you want to be working on ), the rest is up to your imagination and the artist inside you, the more uou experiment the more you'll learn how to optimize it I usually prefer applying it on the edges and borders using a bit of a big brush size so that it creates a sort of gradient feeling, only more random and texturized
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