From the time immemorial, people are trying to write down their wishes, thoughts and expirience. First attempts we find on the walls of the caves, and somewhere in 300 years b.c. the whole thing is very simplified when man finds parchment.
While the time has been passing, the need for writing was growing, and if we think a bit, it's clear thatMature Nature can't give us much animals as we need paper (parchment was made from animals). Like the smart people of history, Chinese people was those who give us real solution - paper. Even this discovery happend 105. year a.c., his getting to Europe longed for 600 years. But, before this story gets us in history, we'll make a stop line here.
So, paper is our topic of this chapter. Maybe you're wondering what can Photoshop do here, because paper as paer is white and there's no anything to do. Yes, but what's with that paper which is old centuries? If you're student, there's no doubt that you have met yellow paper with darked and torn pages of old books. Many artists have noticed the beuty of that old paper and it's often shown in their works. That's what we're doing in this tutorial, using only Photoshop and lack of time.
Papir a la Photoshop
So, open the new document with dimensions of an A4 format paper. In menu Layer, use the option Duplicate Layer... New layer rename into the "Main". On toolbar select Rectangular Marquee Tool (hotkey - M) and make a selection of the whole document, but leave some 1-2 centimeters from each side of document. Then you'll need Lasso Tool (hotkey - L). He'll help us to make one more selection around the previous selection. That first selection, we use only for the orientation. So, with Lasso Tool, make one rough, humped selection around previous selection. Be aware that the option Add to selection is on. If it's not, turn it on or you can hold key Shift while selecting to make selecting in more moves.
When you're finished, click option Fill in the menu Edit. With this we'll fill our selected area. Because old paper gets caracteristic yellow color, we'll select most similiar color to it. You can see result on the next picture:
Because we want to get an effect of fired paper on the edges, we must make those edges darker than other area, too. We'll do this best with Burn Tool (hotkey - O). If you're working with resolution of 72dpi, let the Brush Size be 40 pixels and has a soft drag. After that drag your brush around edges, until you close the ring.
After that, we use filter Underpainting from the Filter menu Artistic. You can use your own options. To paper get it's first, "rough layer", we'll use the filter Film Grain..., from the Filter/Artistic menu, too. Best results are on these parameters:
Grain: 12
Higlight Area: 20
Intensity: 5
Then, again we need a new layer. Make it and rename it to "Dirty". If you have lost selection of your object, select it again. Easiest way is to hold CTRL and click on the icon of the layer "Main".
Let's get back to new layer. You need to use filter Difference Clouds on it, which is located under Menu/Filter/Render. You'll get 'bluelike' fog which will cover Main layer. She is practically representing dirt which we'll use to make paper dirty. But, before we soil our hands, we'll change its blue color into brown color. We'll do that with a little help of the Hue/Saturation, which is located under Menu/Image/Adjustments:
Okey, it's time to get some help from Photoshop's masks.
In the menu Layer we'll click on Add Layer Mask/Hide all. Doing this we've hidden whole presentation of layer "Dirty". Now, with Brush tool, we need to unhide regions which we don't want to spare. Before we begin, make sure that your Foreground color is white, and then select big radius of brush tool, soft drag and Opacity on 20%. Get yourself on the brushing. When you're statisfied with results, change your Opacity to 50% and set radius on 30px. With this parameters Brush tool will show a smaller, but visible regions of "masked" layer. So, drag the brush tool on the edges of the selection. Be free to stop on some places longer time. If you stop on some places longer time you'll get bigger transparancy of the layer and you'll get the effect that the paper suffered bigger temperatures on some places.
Okey, enough of playing with fire! We're getting back on Main layer. Here we'll add final "rough layer", to get noisiest area. We'll do that with Add Noise filter in menu Filter/Noise. Use these parameters:
Amount: 6
Distribution: Uniform
Type of noise: Monochromatic
That's it! Doing this we almost finished our digital version of an old paper.
But, if you want to add more details, do one more step. With the Lasso Tool you need to make a selection inside an object, get back a little from the edge and cut an object following contures of paper. Then, inside menu Select, use command Feather and make its radius 15 px. Again, in the menu Select we'll click on the command Inverse (hotkey - Shift+Ctrl+I). If you've done everything how you should, your selection should have the shape like on this picture:
In the menu Filter/Texture select Craquelure:
Most realistic results gives these parameters:
Crack spacing: 2
Crack depth: 10
Crack brigthness: 10
With this, it makes an impression that the paper don't have upper layer. We've finished our work! You only have to write a text for it. This encloses our friendship today. Until next time enjoy your stay and bye.
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