Ever wanted to create burnt paper? or make something look like an old treasure map? Well heres your chance.

This tutorial is very easy and probably the shortest tutorial I have ever written so here we go

First start with a new canvas size 500x500 in pixels.

Next take the Rectangular Marquee Tool And draw a rectangle with the approximate size you would like your burnt sheet of paper.
Next create a new layer by going to Layer > New > Layer at the top menu or press Shift+Cntrl+N and you can name it paper back
Next thing you need to do is take the Paint bucket and fill the rectangle area with the color #d9952d on the layer that you just created.

Now this part is all you, basically what you do is take the smudge tool and smudge the edges until it looks as if it is ripped on the edges. Here is what I got:


Next comes the easy part, just adding the textures, and outer glow to appear like paper.
Goto the layer settings and choose the Pattern Overlay settings.


Click the arrow that is circled and choose Color Paper. Next choose the texture called Buff Textured
Then use these settings:


Next goto Outer Glow and choose these settings:


Now go back to the image, looks pretty good eh? Now for the holes in the paper all I did was grab the eraser tool and erase some holes into the paper.

For the areas that look like they are somewhat burnt, thats right, you guessed it, just take the Burn tool and burn areas you want, make them different sizes etc. This is one of those things you can't really copy, you just have to be intuitive and get it to look how you want.

Now you want a map on your piece of paper huh? Well I used this map here Map Download here This is a map of the University of Oxford.

Now place the area you would like to be on the map...on the map in a new layer.
Next goto the called paper back and on the layer press Cntrl and click it, you should have something like this:


I know it is a bit hard to see, but the outline of the map is selected.
Now got the layer with the map and press Cntrl+X to cut out that area. Next press cntrl+V To paste it onto it's own layer. You may delete the old map layer and just keep the layer with the cut out.
The map may be displaced so place it onto the piece of paper. Next set the layer with the map cutout settings to Soft Light and Opacity of 60%.

Next if you still have a "Background Layer" Which comes as default with all new documents, make it non-visible, and then goto Layer > Merge Visible or press Shift+Cntrl+E.
You can now make the background layer visible again. Now for the final step! Are you ready, get some popcorn because this is the end. Goto layer settings and click Gradient Overlay and enter these settings:


And that is it, you should get something like this:


Hope you liked the tutorial, if you have any questions just ask

End result is really nice, will read through this in the morning K

Alright, sucks for clandestine haha

Clandestine - says:
ahh tell her shes killing me

YAY!!!!

Yeah I seem to have a habit of doing that to people oh well such is life.

This is my end result. Thanks for tut!!!

Nice results

Looks good but would be nicer if you hadn't chopped the bird off.

do you mean the tip of the wings? If so thats how the img was it runs off the end of the image.

Ahh ok, ignore my comments then.

Nice tut and awesome banner clandestine!

nice!

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