Ripped Paper

Today I was playing around in Photoshop and discovered a neat little way to make edges look kind of ripped, like paper (hence the entry title).

Create a new document (whatever size you like), background white. Make a rectangle smaller than your document.View image.

Run the image through a glass filter (Filter -> Distort -> Glass). Set the texture to frosted, the distortion to 5, and the smoothness to 4. This creates the distortion that will ultimately lead to the unevenness in the rips. View image.

Take the filtered image and put it through the Crosshatching filter (Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Crosshatching). Stroke length should be set to 15, sharpness to 0, and strength to 15. This makes the ripped-looking edges, but they're a bit blurry. The next step "sharpens" them up and gives us out finished product. View image.

Finally, run the image through the Scatter filter (Filter -> Brush Strokes -> Scatter). Set spray radius to 4 and smoothness to 5. The edges now look a bit more ripped, and there we have it! Ripped edges in Photoshop. View image.

You can play around with the settings on the filters to make some really cool stuff. I particularly like playing around with the settings on the Scatter filter.

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