Make sure the layer and the mask aren’t linked together (click on the chain link between the layer and mask thumbnails), so we’ll be able to resize and move the content of each independently of each other. Simply highlight the layer you want to add a mask to, and click the Add layer mask button at the bottom of your layer palette. Let’s start by adding a layer mask to our design. I want to emulate a worn look for the piece, just like if the piece had been heavily scratched. It’s just got a background effect set up, just like at the start of the tutorial I wrote about my metal dumpster texture pack. Let’s have another look at the Road Hog tee design pack by OK Pants (more info about that here, on the Arsenal).
This would be perfect to emulate a very worn print. If we look at the more crumpled type of paper textures, we find things like that ( in volume I, folded-paper-textures-volume-01-sbh-007.jpg): Using these black and white textures in layer mask is super easy, because you can get a very quick sense of how they’ll impact the content of that mask. Since the effect is still a hair too strong, I simply decided to lower the opacity of the texture layer to 25%, and we get something much more subtle. Now, we simply have to use the Screen blending mode to our advantage again, so we can see the background effects of the piece again. Let’s start by placing the texture at the bottom of my Design layer group.Ĭomposition wise, I think it could be more interesting if the rays were coming from behind the head of the silhouette. While this might be a bit corny, I’d like to use the burst-like folds behind the design (and the silhouette in particular) to create some divine rays of some kind. This is the file of the piece I did for the photocopy noise texture pack: For instance, in volume II, there’s this burst-like thing ( folded-paper-textures-volume-02-sbh-006.jpg): There are some less conventional folds in the packs. The scenario: you want to use some of the more exotic textures as part of your design itself. Below is the same texture at 50% opacity instead of 100%. If the effect is too strong, you simply have to play with the layer’s opacity slider to make the effect more or less subtle.
Once that’s done, simply change the blending mode to Screen, and you’ll have some fake folds in your poster!
In order to give this piece an extra “vintage movie poster” feel, I’ll simply add folded-paper-textures-volume-01-sbh-001.jpg from the folded paper texture pack volume I to the top of my layer stack. Here’s the finished file for the piece I did for the demo of my metal dumpster texture pack. The scenario: you just want to add paper folds as the finishing touch to your print. Keeping this information in mind, here are a few ways to use the textures. This is a great mode for making blacks disappear while keeping the whites, and for making glow effects. As an analogy, imagine the selected layer and each of the underlying layers as being 35mm slides, and each slide being placed in a separate projector (one slide for each projector), then all of the projectors are turned on and pointed at the same projector screen…this is the effect of the Screen blend mode. Works somewhat like the Multiply blend mode, in that it multiplies the light pixels (instead of the dark pixels like the Multiply blend mode does). Screen: Similar to the Lighten blend mode, but brighter and removes more of the dark pixels, and results in smoother transitions. This awesome post about blending modes I found on PhotoBlogStop gives us this information about the Screen blending mode: Just like the photocopy noise textures I released a few weeks back, the textures are black and white, which dictates some of the workflow to follow.
These should cover a decent chunk of your folded and crumpled paper emulation needs. The pack is centered around folded and crumpled paper, from a simple vertical and horizontal folds all the way to crazy crumpled and over-folded paper. The textures are roughly 4740 x 6320px 600 dpi.
Each pack contains a series of 12 textures each. I just wanted to let you know that my folded paper texture packs, volume I and volume II are now available on the Arsenal! I hope you enjoy this textures tutorial, teaching you to add fake folds to your designs in a jiffy with the folded paper texture packs! Hello Zine readers! Simon from Studio Ace of Spade here today. Paper Textures Tutorial: Adding fake folds to your design in a jiffy with the folded paper texture packs