Preserved Topic: Aged Paper effect? (Page 1 of 1)

Sorry to bother you all again, but here I am having yet another problem!

How exactly can I achieve a weathered paper effect?

I tried NEOFROG's tutorial 100 times, changed this and that, and I still can't get it to work?

Thanks again for your help everyone.

PS I got the wires thing down cold!

I would just take the lasoo tool and just make the jagged edges how I wanted them. Then I would make a few light shadows and highlights. Then texturize the paper, and maybe add some rips or holes, using some shadowing and the lasoo tool. I would try photoshopclub.com for some texturing and "damage" techniques, although you will have to tweak them for paper.

Weatherd paper http://www.terragaming.com/reve/met.jpg

Alright, never done this, but here's my idea:

Select the general shape of the paper you want. Save Selection as a new channel. Open up the channel and do like mbridge says and select the chunks of the edge to remove, fill them with black.

When you have a weathered looking edge, load the channel as selection. fill the selection with a dark brown (this will be the color of the weathered edges). Next contract the selection by 5-16 pixels (depending on the size of the image. Feather the selection by a number slightly under how much you contracted. Fill the selection with a lighter tan color.

To give it some final detail use the airbrush on a seperate layer with a tone somewhere in between the 2 you have already used to represent the 'higher' points on the paper. That is to say, if it's suppose to be bent, then make a nice smooth tonal variation over the bumps. If you want just a flat piece of paper consider adding some extra tone to the corners to make them look a bit curled.

THis was just off the top of my head, if you can do something nice from it, post it up!