How to Create a Burned Page Effect

Burning pages will give the ancient or medieval touches to your work. You can start by drawing a pale yellow rectangular on separate layer, and cut out little triangles of different size and shape from it on the sides. Using the Lasso tool, press Alt (Option) to draw straight lines for selection and just press backspace to delete the chips off from your rectangular. Then apply the Filter/Distort/Wave with small wave length and small amplitude, then the Filter/Distort/Ripple with small settings at 50% to distort your perfect page. Experiment until you get the desired image in your preview window.

Next part is to make a loose selection around the cut triangles, select a medium size Feather, invert the selection — Command(PC=Control)-Shift-I — and finally intersect your selection with the shape of the page by clicking the layer of your page while pressing Command(PC=Control)-Alt-Shift. You can now create a new layer (Apple-Shift-N) and fill (Alt-Backspace) your selection with a medium brown color to get your general burn effect. Go closer to your edges of the page and your triangles and select a smaller Feather, then fill a new layer with a dark brown color to accentuate on the burned edges. Finally, select Multiply or Overlay as your layer behavior, depending on the colors you used.

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