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How do I make crumpled brown paper?

blueflame

blueflame

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Hello everyone, so I am making my menu in pages, I love some of the templates that they have in there, and lots of nice objects, but I cannot seem to find a way to make my own, or find them for sale.
what I am looking for is like torn off strips of brown paper.does that make sense? they need to be in a rectangular shape. anyway, if anyone has any isight, I would appreciate it. I am looking for some instruction on how to make, or any that are for sale to purchase, or even if there are free ones ;-)

thanks everyone!
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Are you using Photoshop? If so I would google torn paper and how to make brown paper and combine the two.

Found this one on how to do town paper in Photoshop. I don't know if you are using just Pages or if you are using another program and then bringing those files into Pages.
 
thanks everyone!

I tried using that picture site, but i couldn't make anything the right size, I am going to try the scanner idea at kinkos. ill let you know how it goes
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thanks again!
 
i always laugh when designers spend tons of time trying to create something so basic from scratch.

scan a real piece, or shoot a digi photo. done.


its fast, realistic, and original work.
 
sambapati87 said:
the problem stems from people getting "stuck" in the software and completely forgetting about any other medium.
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What the... scan? photograph? TRUE designers create everything from scratch in their always current CS3 setup! :D

Just Kidding. Yes, scan the real thing... it always looks the best.
 
i know you're in pages, but if you wanted to do it in photoshop heres how.

-fill a layer with black, having your foreground and background set to B&W
-Filter>render>clouds
this will give you a page with black and white clouds.
- Filter>stylize>emboss
keep the height down and the amount up, now it will look like grey paper
-Image>adjustment>hue/saturation
click colorize, mess with the saturation and hue levels until you get a desired brown
- after that what you should do if you're not that familiar would be draw a desired strip size and shape with the lasso tool inside that paper layer. once you have the shape hit command/j- thats short for layer>new>layer via copy. now you have strips. add some layer styles (fx) like a small drop shadow, soften the shadow edge and change its color. fool with it until you like it
 
I am going to try this, I do not have a scanner, so my best option i think is to create it. i hope I can get the good crumpled paper look

silverpoebandit said:
i know you're in pages, but if you wanted to do it in photoshop heres how.

-fill a layer with black, having your foreground and background set to B&W
-Filter>render>clouds
this will give you a page with black and white clouds.
- Filter>stylize>emboss
keep the height down and the amount up, now it will look like grey paper
-Image>adjustment>hue/saturation
click colorize, mess with the saturation and hue levels until you get a desired brown
- after that what you should do if you're not that familiar would be draw a desired strip size and shape with the lasso tool inside that paper layer. once you have the shape hit command/j- thats short for layer>new>layer via copy. now you have strips. add some layer styles (fx) like a small drop shadow, soften the shadow edge and change its color. fool with it until you like it
Click to expand...
 
blueflame said:
I am going to try this, I do not have a scanner, so my best option i think is to create it. i hope I can get the good crumpled paper look
Click to expand...

let me know if you don't get it to work... or if you do. i could possibly help you out face to face with the torn edges part.

Good luck
 
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