Torn Paper Edges
12-11-2008 | Last editted on 12-11-2008 12139 views
What happens when you do not properly glue your pieces of paper together and leave them flinging around? Torn paper edges is what you get. When, at that moment, you might not be happy about it, this tutorial will teach you how to apply (and safely undo) torn paper edges to your text and/or logo.
9 comments | Posted in Drawing, Text-Effects
Introduction
The torn paper-effect is not that well known. In fact, I've only seen it 2 times around the web in logo's and images. It's a tricky technique at first, but once you know the drill, it's really easy.
For this tutorial, again will I be using my logo, because of the simplicity of it. It will be a perfect example.
The Folds
To start, we're gonna grab your object, in my case my logo and start with a simple fold. As you can see I started at the letter C. On a new layer, I grabbed some Black and placed a triagular shape over it. As you can see below, it looks like a part of the C is missing.

I used the Pen-Tool for this to get the perfect shape. As you can see the shape of the orange curl is the same size as the part we cut away from the C. In theory, it's the same part, just curling around.

Since this is white on white, we don't want it to be that dark - the shadow. When you're done, grab the curl-layer and go to CTRL+U and drag the bottom slider to the right to turn it White!


Now because I want to simulate the white part of the logo being paper pasted onto the black paper, I want some glue marks. And to do that, I simply lower the opacity on all those black overlay-layers to 90-95.
That way, it looks like there's still some glue left on the black paper.

CTRL+click the layer of your object, or in this case, the logo and with the selection on, press CTRL+SHIFT+I to invert the selection and press DELETE on the paper-layer.


As I said in the beginning, you can not only use this for logo's, but also for other images like photo's. Try to experiment with larger pagecurls and maybe polaroid photo's? Or normal photo's! With the same technique, you can create some sheets of paper from a notebook. You can also deviate the texture to get lots of different paper-outcomes!
Enjoy!
MickM
September 9th, 2009
Thanks all for the lovely comments and Ruben for the feature ;)
pISyEk
September 1th, 2009
hello there!!!
very nice trick!!
Thanks for da sharing... :-)
Ruben
January 28th, 2009
Cool tutorials, I've added your website to my linkdirectory http://adobe-tutorials.vindjeviahier.nl
Venkat Sharma AG
December 14th, 2008
Hey, Mick! This is my first minute on your page and I have to say this! There is something which is very attractive on the page, the colors and the simple style - maybe! Bookmarked you and would be waiting for much to learn from you! Don not disappoint dude!
lionhurt
November 20th, 2008
it;s gre8
can you put link for paper texture
when i search ... it's 50 page in sxc.hu
MickM
November 13th, 2008
@ RossH: I didn't. I just used the pen-tool to create my own font for my logo!
Mara
November 13th, 2008
Awesome! I'm gonna try this, thanks!
RossH
November 13th, 2008
Hi, what font did u use?
Anton Hilman
December 2th, 2009
its beautifull so nice... good work dud