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Recreating magazine clippings

Recreating magazine clippings

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Recreating magazine clippings

Today, I'm going to teach you a technique that I used recently to solve a problem I was faced with. I had to create what looked like a clippings from magazines that have been taped up to a wall. Well, I did had the magazines and you could see on the screen right now. I scan the upper corner of one of them. The thing is I didn't want to tear them up. These were old magazines and in some cases some of them are valuable. I didn't want to rip them. So what I did is I scanned the magazine article, and then I took a regular piece of paper and I tore it. I tore it the way I wanted the tear in the magazine to look. I put that against a black piece of paper and I scanned that. Now when I scanned it, the texture of the black paper kind of came through. So I'm going to go in there and make a quick adjustment to this with levels by pushing my black all the way in, you can see that now I have a very solid black on the outside areas. So what I'm going to do, is I'm going to select this, I'll do a…

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