In this weeks tutorial I’ll be walking you through the process of creating a realistic wrinkled paper effect.
Preparation
Create a new (Ctrl + N) document 800 x 600 pixels with a white (#ffffff) colored background. Right click your background layer and select “Layer From Background” from the menu, doing this will unlock the layer. Once the layer is unlocked add the following “Gradient Overlay”.
We need a good contrasting color for our background due to the paper being white.
Creating The Paper
Select the “Rectangle Tool” (U) then drag out an appropriately sized rectangle onto your canvas.
Select the “Ellipse Tool” then left click on the rectangles vector mask in the layers window. Once clicked select “Subtract From Shape Area” from the top menu.
Drag out a small ellipse at the top of the square, the ellipse should subtract itself from the rectangle leaving a simple hole.
Now select the “Rectangle Tool” (U) and drag out a small rectangle at the top of the ellipse, creating like a keyhole shape but upside down.
Repeat the steps above all long the top edge of the rectangle.
Label your layer “Paper” then add a layer mask. Now select the “Brush Tool” (B), use a medium sized brush of your choice then with the color black #000000 start to color in the edges of the paper.
were now going to warp our paper using the warp tool, make sure your “Paper” layer is selected in the layers window then go to “Edit > Transform > Warp”. When the warp tool is applied to your paper, simply just make tweaks here and there be careful not to overly distort the paper.
Adding The Lines To The Paper
Incorporated in photoshop are some ready made patterns in which will fit perfectly for a paper. Double click your paper layer and select “Pattern Overlay” layer style. Once the “Pattern Overlay” has been selected open up the patterns window (2), then click the top right arrow in the corner (3). In the fly out menu select “Color Paper”, then finally select the lined paper from the list of paper patterns (5).
Adding The Wrinkled Effect
Create a new document (Ctrl + N) 800 x 600 pixels with a transparent background. Reset your background and foreground colors to black and white then select the “Gradient Tool” (G) with the following settings.
