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Crumpled Paper

 

This crumpled paper effect starts with designing a piece of notebook paper and then applying a displacement map to create the texture. Finish the effect off with some layer styles to give it depth.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

35 Comments

  1. marizmendi said on — July 16, 2008 @ 11:57 am

    Great.. thanks for sharing

  2. Scott said on — July 16, 2008 @ 12:48 pm

    Corey for President! By far you have the best tutorials on the block. Other ones I see always skip a step or so. You streamline it for everyone. Please dont ever stop~!

  3. AHMAD said on — July 16, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

    Thank you Corey for this tutorials and keep going,,,,,, God bless you man :)

  4. GabyB said on — July 16, 2008 @ 3:50 pm

    You have my vote Corey :)
    If I could find more tutorials of yours I’d never leave the PC xD

  5. Heather said on — July 16, 2008 @ 4:20 pm

    More tutorials! Corey rocks!

  6. Celeste said on — July 16, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

    Very KOOL! You are the BEST! Keep coming up with great TUTS.

  7. Juan M Ortiz said on — July 16, 2008 @ 11:07 pm

    Count my vote also

  8. Gary Spedding said on — July 17, 2008 @ 8:35 am

    Agree with GabyB. This one was was devastatingly simple in execution but the underlying principles profound. I like the idea of being able to use the simple scaled page and making a template by punching out shapes or text for example. It is often a great way to learn of techniques to apply to your own work that wins the day with these tutorials rather than just repeating them.

    Cheers,

    Gary.

  9. Ruben said on — July 17, 2008 @ 9:52 pm

    Hey Barker very kool stuff man keep doing them. I have one question to ask how do you change the photoshop animation box to act like the flash animation key frame. Also how do save an animation created in photoshop cs3 as a flash file.

  10. dave said on — July 18, 2008 @ 5:11 am

    good work mate

  11. Bruna said on — July 18, 2008 @ 4:30 pm

    Wow thats greeeeeeeeeeeeeeat thanks!
    =D

  12. alvinoi said on — July 18, 2008 @ 5:00 pm

    you do know how to please us.
    u rock bigtime!

    Tnx man!

  13. Josh said on — July 21, 2008 @ 11:49 am

    Wow! Excellent tut! I learned a lot from this one. how to use displacement…what the hell a smart object is…this is great!

    Ill be looking around for more of your tutorials!

    the only issue i had was converting the keystrokes from Mac to PC…but thats not really that big of a deal!

    thanks again, mine came out awesome!!

    with regard
    josh

  14. John said on — July 22, 2008 @ 12:03 am

    Hey, Do you think you can make more easier things like the flames and shooting stars?

  15. KidLizard said on — July 23, 2008 @ 12:42 pm

    Genius

  16. David O'Hara said on — July 24, 2008 @ 5:15 am

    A great idea. I like the idea of the “smart object” effect.

    Thanks
    David :-)

  17. nung at pontianak city said on — July 29, 2008 @ 2:37 am

    its very interest for learn expecially me the beginner, thank’s so much , i wait for the next idea.. by wassalam

  18. mohammad hassan said on — July 31, 2008 @ 1:30 am

    just iwant to say that you got great website for this program & thankfull for you
    this is at least i can say

    salam

  19. mohamed said on — August 6, 2008 @ 9:38 am

    i have always wanted to do the crumple trick
    .it was great thanks.

  20. Fenny said on — August 28, 2008 @ 2:07 am

    Wunderfull, thank you. Greetings from the Netherlands.

  21. Barrot said on — September 4, 2008 @ 8:07 am

    My lines become unevenly spaces as i shrink the first layer.

  22. crissy said on — September 8, 2008 @ 4:41 pm

    you rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  23. Chris said on — October 1, 2008 @ 12:09 pm

    When I use the eliptical marquee tool it automatically deletes the background before I move it. Help?

  24. Rain said on — October 18, 2008 @ 5:03 pm

    Hi..i was really doing well on this and got very upset cuz i was enjoyinh this, till it cuts off…i was wonderign if u could chek this problem out, im not sure why its doing it but i really want to finsih this project, thank u

  25. Adenola Tope said on — November 4, 2008 @ 12:40 am

    you have really boarding light to my way. God bless you, but i wish i could get the video so that i can play it on my notebook…. Jah Bless

  26. John said on — November 6, 2008 @ 6:50 am

    When using the marque tool to fill in, how do you get it to automatically fill in the blue lines when pressing ctrl+alt+t, because i have it moving down, but not filling in the as it goes

  27. Gaby said on — December 11, 2008 @ 9:40 pm

    I’m on a PC.
    What do I click to fill my lines?

  28. Jessica said on — May 7, 2009 @ 3:08 pm

    where are we meeting??
    YOUR AWESOME COREY!!!!!
    my hero… almost

  29. Jones said on — August 3, 2009 @ 11:26 pm

    What a fantastic tutorial.

  30. Gustavo Oré Cuya said on — August 10, 2010 @ 4:20 pm

    T e felicito por tus excelentes tutoriales, lo unico malo es que no esta en mi idioma ahora te pido de favor si es que me podrias decir como hago para que mi sellecion de marco de fila unica se convierta en una linea celeste este tutorial esta en Crumpled Paper – Effects Tutorials Videos – Planet Photoshop dime cual son las teclas de acceso directo o ayudame de alguna manera muchas gracoas y otra ves gracias.

  31. Ash said on — August 11, 2010 @ 10:57 am

    Just what i was looking for.

    Thanks for sharing.

  32. Bob said on — February 1, 2011 @ 1:22 pm

    The application of the Filter / Distort / Displace at 07:41 has no effect in CS3 exteneded.
    I went through the entire tutorial again just to be sure I didn’t miss something. It just does absolutely nothing. Bummer.

    I can apply other filters and they show as “smart filters” but the Distort / Displace? It’s like it’s not even there.

  33. C.Kae said on — February 14, 2011 @ 5:38 pm

    Great tutorial. One question though. Is there anyway to control the weight of the line that is put down by the Single Row Marquee Tool. My lines look so thin its hard to see. Appreciate it and keep up the good work.

  34. Erik said on — March 13, 2011 @ 8:55 am

    I don’t think I would use this, because paper doesn’t crumble in nice forms en waves. Crumbled paper is made up of a (sometimes very dense) collection of squares and triangles. The paper in this tutorial is simply too elegantly ‘crumbled.’

  35. princess said on — August 7, 2011 @ 9:12 pm

    This did not work in CS5. How do you do this in CS5?

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