Here's how I've created that leather look in my scrapping using PSE 2.0-

I fill the area that I want to be leather with a brown color (the color would depend on the tone of the leather I wnatd to create).

Then I use a brush from Fin Fond It's the Finesse set- (If you click on the word Finesse in the list you'll see the brushes in that set- it's the top right brush that I use)

I actually use the brush with the burn tool and enlarge the brush. I usualy go over the image with each of the highlights and pretty high opacity.

(Unfornately, the only full LO I can think of where I used this is one to be published with this tip in the SS Digital Issue- otherwise I'd paste a link so that you can see it- here's a small sampling of how it looks.)

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