Tutorial – Create a paper texture

April 10th, 2009 | Comments 7 Comments | 438 views

In this tutorial I am going to show you how to create a paper texture in Adobe Photoshop.

Step 1
Create a new document (any size) and fill the background with white color #FFFFFF

Step 2
Create a new layer, take the Single Row Marquee Tool and Single Column Marquee Tool and draw the lines as shown in the image below.

Horizontal Lines Color: #bedfec
Vertical Line Color: #ffc4c5

step 2

Step 3
Choose these two colors, Foreground color: fffff4, Background Color: ffffff and apply Clouds filter from here

Filter > Render > Clouds

Now you should have an image like this
Image after clouds effects

Step 4
Take a Brush with 18px master diameter, choose the foreground color #fffff3 and draw with brush behind the horizontal lines. You may not draw on some lines, or some part of lines.

This step will make the lines look old, like their ink is bleeding. Your image should look something like this;

after applying brush

Step 5
Go to the Horizontal Lines’ Layer, take the Eraser (E) with 20px diameter and start Erasing lines very carefully. You don’t need to Erase the full line. Just Erase the edges to make them look broken. See the image below how I did with my lines.

Horizontal Lines Cut

Use same Erasing technique with vertical line. See the result of my vertical line

vertical line cut

And your paper texture is ready :)

In addition if you like you can use the step 4 one more time (with the center crossing line) with this color #faffeb. See how my image looks like now.

additional step

Here is my final image :)

final image





  1. Sandy Graham

    nice!

  2. Jahangir

    Thank you Sandy :)

  3. zulnapi

    very cool…

  4. Jahangir

    Thank you Zulnapi :)

    I am glad you like the tutorial.

  5. Janice

    Nice tutorial :)

  6. Waffl3z

    Why is the coffee cup so small?

  7. Jahangir

    ^ Tutorial is not for the coffee cup, its for Paper effect :)

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