| Step 1: You need to choose
which paper you want torn. If you made some textured
cardstock paper from my other tutorial, use one of those!
Got to FILE - OPEN
Then you will get a box that looks like this:
Look for the paper that you want to
tear. You can double click on the one you want and it
will open up in Photoshop. Or you can single click and
hit open. |
| Step 2: You now have your
paper open that you want to tear. Go to your Tool bar
and choose your LASSO TOOL. If your lasso tool is not
showing, right click on the one that is and choose lasso
tool.
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| Step 3: This next step may
take some practice until you get the torn area you want.
What you'll do is put your curser where you want to start
and kind of jiggle an area at an angle to where you want to
end. Then go off your page and go around to back to
your start point.
Once you're back to your start
place, let go of your mouse and you'll get "marching ants"
around your paper that will be cut and torn.
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| Step 4: We want this piece
of paper, so we need to delete the rest. Go to you
very top Tool Bar and choose SELECT - INVERSE. Your
marching ants will now be around the excess paper we want to
delete.
Next hit your DELETE key on you
keyboard. You should now have this:
Right click anywhere on your image
and choose DESELECT. Your marching ants will go away.
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| Step 5: Let's name this
layer. Double click on the text and name it PAPER
LAYER.
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| Step 6: Now we need to make
a duplicate layer. RIGHT CLICK in the blue area and
choose DUPLICATE LAYER.
Now rename this new layer TEAR
LAYER, the same way you renamed your paper layer.
Then put your mouse over your TEAR
LAYER and drag it below your PAPER LAYER so your Tear layer
is below your Paper layer.
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| Step 7: Now double click on
the blue area of your TEAR LAYER and you'll get this:
This has several functions and as
we do more tutorials, we'll go through them all. But
for this tutorial we need to first change the color of our
TEAR layer. I'm changing mine to white, since that is
the usual color paper is when torn.
Go to COLOR OVERLAY in the left
column. Click on the Red color and you'll get a color
picker. Choose whichever color you want your tear to
be.
Then check the TEXTURE BOX.
This is just under Bevel and Emboss. Click on the
texture image and choose CLOUDS and change the SCALE to
200%.
Click OK. We're done here now
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| Step 8: I can't see my
changes! That's right. We need to move our PAPER
LAYER over a bit now. Click on you PAPER LAYER so it's
the one highlighted now. Then go to your tool bar and
choose the MOVE TOOL.
Now move your PAPER LAYER a little bit
to the left until you see your torn area as much as you want
to have it.
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| Step 9: We're almost done!
We need enlarge our layers so we can see them better for
this next step. If you look on the bottom left corner
you will see a number and %. Highlight that number and
change it to around 75%.
Now from your tool bar choose your
SMUDGE TOOL.
If you don't see the SMUDGE TOOL,
right click on the one that's showing and choose the Smudge
Tool. On the very top Tool bar you will see you have
some options:
I chose one called DRY BRUSH, if you
don't have that one, then choose one that's kind of
spattered looking. Then change the size to 100.
You do this by sliding the arrow under Master Diameter.
When your done choosing yours and changing the size click
somewhere on your page to get rid of the dialog box.
Highlight your TEAR LAYER and start
at the top of your image. Move your mouse in a left to
right zigzag motion and go all the way down to the end of
your image. Every once in a while stop and start
again, this way if you don't like the way it's looking you
can go to EDIT - STEP BACKWARD, or ALT+CTRL+Z.
This is like an undo button.
Don't worry about going over your
PAPER because your SMUDGE tool will only work on the layer
that is highlighted. Now because we have our layer at
75% you're going to have to work in increments, because
you're going to have to move your left/right and up/down
arrows to get to the whole image. Here is what mine
now looks like:
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| Step 10: Once your done with
your TEAR LAYER, highlight your PAPER LAYER. Go back
up top to your tool bar and change your settings to 50%.
Now do the same on your PAPER LAYER
as you did on your Tear Layer, but this time, make smaller
strokes. Here's mine:
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| Step 11: Now make sure you
like all that you've done. Change the viewing size to
50 or 13 and see that you like it and didn't miss any spots.
You might even want or need to move your Paper Layer more to
the left or to the right if you don't want to show as much
of the tear.
When you have it the way you want
it, go to your LAYERS and right click on one and choose
MERGE VISIBLE. You will now only have one layer.
Go to FILE - SAVE AS and save it as
a PNG to retain the transparency. When you get this
box
Choose NONE, this will give you a much
nicer image. |
| I hope you found this tutorial
helpful. You can use this tutorial for all shapes and
sizes of paper. If you're working on a smaller object
like a tag, you'll need to adjust your size settings on the
Smudge Tool.
Renee' Strucel |
