Page Curl Effect Tutorial
With this tutorial, I am going to show you how to achieve a page curl effect in just a few easy steps. This tutorial use the Warp filter so it’s for Photoshop CS2 only.
Let’s start by opening the photo you want to apply the effect to. I used this stock photo
The first thing that we are going to is to unlock the background layer. To do this simply double click on the padlock icon besides your photo thumbnail in the layers palette.
Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool
and select a rectangular area in the corner that you want to apply the effect. In the screenshot below I have highlighted my selection.
Now select the gradient tool and draw a black to white gradient in your selection. In this case I drew the gradient from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.
Now deselect (Select->Deselect) or (Ctr+D)
Next go to Edit->Transform->Warp.
Drag the bottom left point towards the center like in the screenshot below.
And here is our result.
Finally apply a Drop Shadow style. These are the settings I used.
And here is my final result.
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February 26th, 2006 at 7:28 am
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February 28th, 2006 at 3:55 am
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March 7th, 2006 at 1:12 pm
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March 7th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
Great tutorial. I have a question though. How do I get rid of gradient in the selection after applying warp?
March 8th, 2006 at 7:13 am
Hi, after applying the gradient you should deselect (Ctrl+D) or go to Select->Deselect
March 16th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
Soorry for mi english…….(i speak spanish)
I have cs 1, and i have the efect warp, i try to do this efect but i dont know higligted my selection, i think (supose) , this is the reason for my bad results, tellme please how i do this efect??
March 18th, 2006 at 4:47 pm
[...] Page Curl Effect Tutorial With this tutorial, I am going to show you how to achieve a page curl effect in just a few easy steps. This tutorial use the Warp filter so it’s for Photoshop CS2 only. Let’s start by opening the photo you want to apply the effect to. I used this stock photo The first thing that we […] [...]
March 28th, 2006 at 6:49 am
there is no such thing as edit> transform> warp on my PS version I have version 8, (CS 1?)
March 29th, 2006 at 7:18 am
Awesome tutorial! thanks
March 30th, 2006 at 5:38 am
heyyou (: how are you ? well, actually my question was: in my adobe photoshop (7.0) version there is no warp thing under edit\transform ?
March 30th, 2006 at 10:37 pm
hello..
at last i’ve found a simple process with this effect. the other that has the same effect was very difficult to to follow..or maybe i just dont know how to use the pen tool..anyways, thanks for this…
April 18th, 2006 at 11:25 am
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May 15th, 2006 at 1:17 am
Wonderful tip really! Thank you.
Just an idea: If you want to keep de corner shorter, you can wrap a selection about twice the first one. After moving the corner to the center, use the handles to modify the edge of the corner. The effect is fantastic.
Thanks again for the idea.
May 20th, 2006 at 6:26 pm
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May 26th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Dude’s, can’t you read? It says in the beginning that this tutorial uses the function warp that only excist in Adobe CS2(9.0). How hard can it be =. Nice tut by the way =)
July 14th, 2006 at 9:29 am
cool tut. very useful.
July 24th, 2006 at 5:40 am
Thanks so mutch!!! This tut is great - Wanda
September 15th, 2006 at 3:39 am
Absolute genius!! I’ve been dicking about half the morning to do this & got nowhere - thanks for ace tip1!
September 30th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
Nice tutorial! It really opened my eyes. I’ve never seen anything like that before.
November 2nd, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Awesome tut!!!
November 29th, 2006 at 10:24 pm
hi,
i’m using CS 8 n there is no transform>wrap in my application.how?