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Select just the top half of the letter
and apply Filter > Distort > Shear.
Click just below the midpoint, and drag
to the right to bend the paper. When
working on the top half of the paper,
be sure not to move the anchor point at
the bottom of the dialog box or the two
halves will no longer match up.
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Here’s the business letter we’ll use
in both our examples. If you’re
going to use a letter, you’ll obviously
need some text on it. It doesn’t usually
matter what this is, as long as it doesn’t
begin Lorem Ipsum: readers may not
recognize the fake Latin text, but the
person who commissioned you will.
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To begin the Crumple effect, we’ll
use the Wave filter to distort the
basic letter. This can be a confusing
filter at first glance, because there
appear to be so many variables: but
it’s quite controllable. The number of
Generators determines the different
number of waves; set to 1, the effect will
be too regular and phoney. Because we
want long, sweeping curves, raise the
Wavelength levels: the higher the levels,
the greater the length of each wave.
You can use the Amplitude sliders to
determine the wave height, but you’ll
get far more control by simply lowering
the horizontal and vertical scale to make
the wave effect less extreme.
W
HEN ART EDITORS
are stuck for a visual
idea, they fall back on a piece
of paper with the concept
written on it. An executive
might hold a paper entitled
Restructuring Proposal; a
real estate agent might wield
one with the word Contract
emblazoned on it in red ink.
Whatever the wording on
the paper, the last thing you
want to do is to leave it as a
flat sheet. Simply distorting
it into perspective is rarely
sufficient: this is paper, after all,
and not a sheet of plastic; it
bends, creases and deforms as
it’s handled.
Here, we’ll look at a couple
of different paper treatments: a
simple fold, and the crumpled
effect seen on a piece of paper
that’s been stuffed in a back
pocket for too long.
Paper: folding and crumpling
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Paper and fabric
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Although real
paper tends to be
white, you’ll have a
hard time working
on it if you leave it
pure white. Lower
the white point of
your paper using
Curves or Levels to
just take the edge
off the brightness,
and you’ll find it far
easier to see what
you’re doing. You
can always paint
highlights back in
later if you need to.
It would have
been possible to
perform these
distortions using
Image Warp
instead. But Shear
is actually easier
for this kind of
bend; Image Warp
can sometimes be
just too powerful.
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After applying the filter, leave
the top half of the paper selected
and use the Burn tool with a large,
soft-edged brush to add gentle shading
above the crease line. Add a little more
where the paper turns away at the top
to give the impression of it bending over
away from us.
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Now use the Lasso tool to make
irregular vertical selections. Don’t
make the lines dead straight: hold the
O A key and click points at intervals
along the letter to make the tool draw
straight selection lines between each
point you click.
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Now select the bottom half of the
paper, and apply the Shear filter
again. You’ll need to click the Defaults
button to reset the tool to a vertical line;
you can then add whatever distortions
you want.
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Now use a large, soft brush with
the Burn tool to add the shading.
Keep the brush on the deselected side of
the selection line, so that only the edge
of the brush has an effect on the paper.
Don’t paint exactly along the lines, but
fade off away from the edges for an
altogether more realistic appearance.
5
Now, with the bottom half
distorted as well, add some
shading to that half of the paper, again
without deselecting it. You can also add
a little shading elsewhere on the paper
to give the sense of a gentle ripple.
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Now deselect, and use the Lasso
tool once more to make a series
of horizontal selections. Use the Burn
tool once more to add the new shading
within the selected area, once again
being careful not to overdo the effect.
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