Here's the signature sheet for the memory book. I decided to create it in Photoshop because I didn't want any elaborate designs but I wanted to be able to add effects to the pictures and things like that. I started out with a solid dark brown background, then I added images of wood texture, crumpled paper, and cardboard, set them on overlay, and reduced their opacity to add some texture to the background. Then, I added a picture of the old paper, resized it, and rotated it. Next, I added the text that says "Signatures" and used some brushes with the eraser tool to make it look worn. Next, I selected the top roll of the paper and copied it to a new layer above the text layer so it looked like the text was underneath the roll. Then, I added a drop shadow to the roll and to the entire sheet of paper.Then, I used the burn tool to burn the bottom left piece of the paper. Finally, I added a gradient (from white to gray to black) from the top left to the bottom right, put it right below the piece of paper's layer, changed it to overlay, and reduced the opacity. I think that's everything there is to it, so I hope you enjoy!
Okay, here's the curl effect. There's not much to explain on this one because it was so simple; in fact, I never realized how easy it is to create this kind of effect. Anyway, I pretty much just followed the tutorial and then added a solid color layer below the picture to make it look nice and easier to see. Hope you enjoy!
Here's the sticky tape tutorial. This was pretty easy, I just followed the tutorial. I had to download some grunge brushes from a site I found on Google because the link they had for the grunge brushes didn't seem to have any way to download them. Otherwise, I just followed the tutorial and used a picture that I found. Lastly, I added a canvas texture to the picture to make it look older and more worn.
Here's my photo collage clipping mask thing for the project achievement. It wasn't too difficult. First, I got a bunch of pictures and then turned them into Polaroids. It was A LOT EASIER to make all of the photos into Polaroids when I used the action that I downloaded. I like getting to just push a button and have Photoshop make the Polaroid effect for me instead of having to do each step individually on every picture. Anyway, after that, it was pretty simple. I created an 8 1/2" x 11" landscape document in Photoshop with a 300 ppi resolution, and then I had to change the resolution to 300 ppi on all of the photos so they wouldn't look blurry when I put them on the document. Then, I just copied all the photos into the document, made them all the same size and smaller, and arranged them on the page. Next, I added "Class of 2014" and "2010-2011" in a font that I liked that was also thick enough that you'd be able to see the photos. Then, I clipped the photo on the text, added a drop shadow and a bevel, and then added the word "YEAR" on the hyphen between "2010" and "2011." Anyway, that's about it. Hope you enjoy!
