Page Curl Tutorial

Made by: Nick

Well, today I thought i'd show you how to create a nice looking page curl in the corner of a picture. For this you can use any image, I will use one of the Eiffel Tower as an example:




Start by using the polygonal lasso tool




and make a selection on any corner of the design something like I have shown below:




then hit the delete key, it should remove the selection:




Now select the new pixels of the image (all but the part you have deleted).




then inverse the selection




You will notice that the deleted area has been selected.




Now we have to transform the selection, from the select menu choose the transform selection option




then right-click over the selected area and select rotate 180 degree




this is the result




make a new layer




and fill the selected area with white color




open the blending options window for the new layer by right clicking on it and choosing the blending options.




From Gradient overlay option make the sure that the angle fits your folded part (here I -75 fits mine)




then select white foreground and gray background colors for the Gradient overlay



Now add a drop shadow with these values below and make sure that the angle of the shadow is right for your folded part (it might be different than mine).




This is what I had so far:




You could stop there as it looks pretty good as it is, but I decided to carry on and try a few extra modifications out to try and make it look better.
I started by transforming the shape (Ctrl+T), and then right-click and select warp




here just pull the 90 degree angle a bit to outside to create an even more curled effect.

Final Result