1. Open the image of your choice. Make sure it's RGB, of course. Go to
layers>transparency>add alpha channel.
2. Go to Image>Canvas Size... Click the "chain" to break it keeping aspect
ratio. Increase the new width and new height by about 20 apiece (may vary
according to your image size, but 20 is a good size for smaller images). Click center to center the image.
3. In the Layers, Channels, and Paths dialogue box, create a new white
layer. Fill it with the color #a7986f (a brown). Move it below your photo
layer.
4. Do Layers>alpha to selection on your original photo layer. Grow selection
by 5 (that is, one-fourth of what you increased the canvas size).
5. Feather selection by 20. Make a new transparent layer, move it between
the original photo layer and the brown layer. Fill the selection with white.
Deselect (Selection>None).
6. Duplicate the feathered white layer... Each time you do, a little more of the brown
will be covered. I copied twice for this image.
7. On your original photo layer, layer>colors>desaturate. Copy your original
photo layer, and fill it with #a7986f (same brown). Set the layer blending
mode to Overlay. You may at this point duplicate and modify the opacity of
this layer to produce the amount of brown you wish to have shown in your
picture, fiddle with the contrast of the original black and white layer (very recommended) Or you could just leave it how it is. :P
Optional Steps to increase detail:
8. Obtain a nice set of grunge brushes (ahem
Prowler's Brush Packs)
9. To make it seem as if the photo has been scratched off a bit, use grunge
brushes along the edges and a little bit in the center of the original photo
layer and erase portions of it (make sure you duplicate it just in case you
overdo it, make the copy invisible so you can see what happens when you
erase). Personally I use Part 2-3 (Scratches), Prowler Grunge 14#6, Prowler
Grunge 7, Prowler Grunge 6, Prowler Grunge 10#2, and from another brush
pack, Grunge 23 and 24. *I dunno what I'd use now, since this tutorial is 4 years old. Whoops.* Do this a little to the border itself so it doesn't
look too uniform: add a little black shading, also. Coffee stains also bode
well..
Afterwards, you can flatten the image, and copy and paste it to a much larger sized image... I
usually scale down my photo about 33.3% (Ratio X,Y ,667). I then use the
transform tool to rotate it about 15º. Copy the layer, fill it with black,
layer to image size, and, making sure keep trans. is off, blur by about 3x3
(and copy if necessary for a thicker shadow).
I usually add a staple, paperclip, or tape around this time. I did a tape tutorial, but the other two should be fairly easy to figure out. I no longer have the saved gfig shape for the paperclip. >_<
http://silence.carchive.net/?section=images/tutorials/tapetutorial.html
And there you have it. I might have an error or two or an old location in this tutorial. Just let me know.
