Photoshop tutorials

Page Curl effect

This tutorial will give you yet another way to create a page curl in photoshop 7.
Click here to view CS2 demonstration.

I like to use guides for this because it speeds things up a bit however, you may have a method you prefer.

Step 1 First, Drag your guides about 1/4 from the outside in.

Step 2 Select the pen tool . and following the guides you just added, left click a square outline. Be sure the pen selections are connected once you make it all the way around.

Figure 1

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Step 3 Now that you have your outline, we're going to relocate the guides to position the page curl.

Step 4 Drag the right and bottom guides to dead center of the image.

View: Figure 2

Outline

Step 5 On the new guidelines, select Add Anchor Point Tool and add two more anchor points were the new guide lines meet.

Figure 3 Point A. And Point B.

Add Anchor Point

Step 6 Drag point C toward the center of the image until you reach the desired page curl. Salt to taste. I am over exaggerating here.

Figure 3

connected

Step 7 Now that you have your basic outline, right click on the image and select Fill Selection.

This will enable you to fill the pen outline with color.

Figure 4

Fill

Now we're going to add the curl effect to the page.

Step 8 Adding the curve:

A. Reset your guides to the original position in the beginning of the tutorial.

B. Reselect the pent tool,

C. Create a new layer and draw a triangular shape like figure5.

Figure5

Triangle

Step 9 Select the add anchor point tool again and drag the shape to look like the page is curling.

Figure 6

add curl

Step 10 Adding the Gradient: 10.
Now that you have your desired curl effect.
A. Make selection
B. Select the Gradient Tool and drag the Gradient Tool over the new selection to add some dimension to the curl.

*hint: drag the new layer with the new gradient behind the first layer to get a better idea how the Gradient looks.

Figure 7

behind layer