Old Paper Effect

Quick reference

• 00:03 Hey everyone! Howard Pinsky here with a very old Photoshop tutorial.
• 00:07 No, it's nothing that I've done in the past, but today I'm going to show you
• 00:10 guys
• 00:11 how you can create an old stained paper texture, that kind of looks like an ancient
• 00:15 treasure map,
• 00:15 all with just layer styles and filters. Let me show you how this works.
• 00:19 The size of the starting document isn't too important for this tutorial,
• 00:23 but I'm going to be starting with a 1920 by 1080 pixel document.
• 00:27 It can be filled with a very dark brown which, will appear eventually behind
• 00:32 the paper.
• 00:32 The first layer that we're going to be creating will be the base for the paper.
• 00:36 So, in your Layers panel, create a new layer, and then we're going to fill it with
• 00:40 a lighter brown.
• 00:41 I'm going to be using the value E1 CA B0
• 00:45 Once the foreground color has been set,
• 00:49 you can quickly fill your layer by holding down your Option key on the Mac
• 00:52 or ALT key in Windows
• 00:54 and pressing Delete or Backspace. Now that the paper layer is in place
• 00:58 let's start applying a few filters. But before you do,
• 01:02 remember to convert the layer into a smart object so you can easily edit those filters
• 01:06 at a later point.
• 01:07 Good. The first filter will be noise, just to give a subtle hint of speckling.
• 01:12 3.5%, uniform and monochromatic
• 01:16 should give you a nice texture. Now that the noise is in place
• 01:19 We'll be able to add our next filter, which can be found in the filter gallery.
• 01:23 Once the filter gallery is up, expand the artistic section
• 01:27 and choose the Under-Painting filter. This will add some chipping in a frame to
• 01:31 the paper texture.
• 01:32 The settings usually come down to personal preference, but I'm going to max out
• 01:36 the brush size and texture coverage
• 01:37 and then set the texture to burlap, with a scaling
• 01:41 of 200% and Relief of 5. Press OK.
• 01:44 To apply the final filter, next we need to create an additional layer to
• 01:49 really give some
• 01:50 age to our design. Once again, create a new layer
• 01:53 and this time go ahead and clip it to the paper layer.
• 01:57 This can be done by holding down
• 01:58 ALT or Option, and placing your cursor right in between those two layers,
• 02:02 until you see the downward arrow, and then click. This may seem pointless now,
• 02:07 but it'll make sense shortly once we add a layer mask. To start off this texture,
• 02:11 we're going to fill it with a simple ‘clouds’ filter, but again, before that's done,
• 02:15 convert your layer into a smart object. As the clouds filter uses your foreground
• 02:20 and background colors:
• 02:21 set them to black and white by pressing the D key on your keyboard.
• 02:25 Now the colors have been set, head up to the Filter menu,
• 02:28 down to Render and then choose ‘clouds’ to fill in your new layer.
• 02:32 Obviously, we are going to be sticking with black and white clouds,
• 02:35 but we're going to be using them to interact with the previous layer
• 02:38 using our blend modes. Go ahead and double-click on your layer to bring up
• 02:42 the Layer Styles dialogue,
• 02:43 and stay within the blending options section. We're going to first change the
• 02:47 blend mode
• 02:48 to Color Burn in order to, well, burn the previous layer.
• 02:51 And already that’s looking quite nice, but just to pull back some of the harsher
• 02:55 tones in this layer,
• 02:57 we can use the Blend If option at the bottom. With your ALT or Option key held
• 03:02 down,
• 03:02 drag the right side of the shadow slider to the right until you're happy with the result.
• 03:06 Of course, if you like the way this looked
• 03:09 before the adjustment,
• 03:11 you can certainly leave the blend if option alone. You could stop here,
• 03:15 but that would be boring. To take this a step further, let's add a nice border around
• 03:20 our paper.
• 03:20 Go ahead and select the original paper layer in the Layers panel,
• 03:24 and with the Rectangular Marquee tool drag a selection around the paper,
• 03:28 about one inch in from the edge of the document. Once this election has been made,
• 03:32 add a layer mask to hide what was outside that selection,
• 03:35 revealing the brown layer underneath, Now, in order to create
• 03:39 ripped edges, we are going to be applying filters to the layer mask,
• 03:42 rather than the layer itself. The first filter will be a Wave Distortion,
• 03:47 in order to get rid of any boring straight edges.
• 03:51 The setting you use may differ from mine depending on the size of the document.
• 03:54 For this size, the values you see here will be nice waves around the layer,
• 03:58 if you want fewer or more waves you can adjust the max
• 04:01 wavelength value. Once you apply the wave filter,
• 04:04 you probably noticed the edges are way too smooth. In order to roughen them up,
• 04:09 we're going to add one more filter to the layer mask.
• 04:12 This time, back in the filter gallery,
• 04:13 choose the Spatter filter, which is in the brush stroke section.
• 04:17 A spray radius of around 13, and smoothness of 8 should
• 04:20 give your edges and nice rough torn look to them.
• 04:24 Finally, to finish off this design and to add a little bit of depth to our paper,
• 04:27 let's add a few layer styles, starting with an inner shadow.
• 04:31 Set the blend mode to Overlay, the opacity at 100%,
• 04:36 the distance to zero, and then crank up to size to around 50 pixels,
• 04:40 in order to darken up the edges a touch. And lastly,
• 04:43 add an inner glow to darken up the edges even more. For this style,
• 04:47 set the blend mode to Color Burn, increase the size a touch to around 12
• 04:51 pixels
• 04:53 and press OK to see your final result. Now, at any point in the future, if you want the
• 04:57 texture to extend
• 04:58 right to the edges of you document, hold in your Shift key
• 05:01 and click on the layer mask in order to disable it.

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