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International Pirate Day is always something that sneaks up on you. With this tutorial, you can be prepared this time. Hide your treasure properly, or just pretend to find that old recipe that your great Grandmother bequeathed: you know, the one with avocadoes in it!
Exercise files
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Old Paper Effect.psd17.6 MB
Quick reference
Topic
Add and old, aged look to your document
When to use
International Pirate Day is always something that sneaks up on you. With this tutorial, you can be prepared this time. Hide your treasure properly, or just pretend to find that old recipe that your great Grandmother bequeathed: you know, the one with avocadoes in it!
Instructions
Create a new document
- 1920 by 1080 pixel document
- Fill with a dark brown color
Create a base for the paper
- Create a new layer
- Fill with a light brown color: E1 CA B0
- Convert the layer into a Smart Object.
Add some filters
- Noise: 3.5 %, uniform and monochromatic
- New Filter: Artistic Section: Under-Painting filter.
- Max out the brush size and texture coverage: set the texture to Burlap, Scaling: 200%
Create a new layer to blend in some old styling
- Clip it to the paper layer (holding down ALT or Option, and placing your cursor in between those two layers)
- Convert the layer into a Smart Object.
- Set color to Black and White (shortcut key D)
- Filter Menu: Render: then choose Clouds
- Layer Styles: Blending Options: Blend Mode: Color Burn
- Blend If: With your ALT or Option key held down drag the right side the shadow slider to the right
Create some rippled edges
- Select the original paper
- With the Rectangular Marquee Tool drag a selection around the paper
- Add a Layer Mask to hide what was outside that selection
Add filter to new Mask to only affect the edges
- Filter Menu: Distortion: be a Wave Distortion
- Filter Gallery: Spatter filter
Add some more style to the paper
- Inner Shadow: Blend Mode: Overlay, Opacity: 100%, Size: 50, Distance: 0
- Inner Glow: Blend Mode: Color Burn, Size: 12,
Tip
Because we have used a smart filter, everything can be played around with to get the exact style that you want.
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- 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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