A Real Fairy Photo Effects

18. Now to add some texture find or make it yourself a nice Hi-resolution paper shot. Place it in and scale it down. Name the layer Paper and drag it under the Main Object layer. In my case the first paper shot was to clean. So to add some riffles I took another paper shat, this time a crumpled one. Place it the same way and scale it down. Drag it over the Paper layer and name it Paper Riffle. So to visually merge two paper layers select Paper Riffle layer and change the blending option to Soft Light in the blending option drop down box in the layer's palette and lower down the opacity to about 80%. Now you can see the Paper layer thru it.







19. Now repeat the last step for the Main Object layer to get the feeling that it's printed on this piece of paper. )) Nice don't you think, but kind of empty. Now to fill a little the regions which in the original vector file are filled with white drag Main Object on the New Layer icon in the Layer's palette, to create a duplicate of this layer right above it. Name it Main Object Whites. Change the blending mode to Overlay, and lower the opacity to about 50%, to make the whites less persistent, and to see a little of paper texture thru.

20. So it's almost done, but I'm not happy with the colors yet. Select the Paper Riffle layer and then press the Create new fill or adjustment layer button from the layers palette and choose Curves from the appearing menu. Drag the right and left handlers towards each other in the options menu till you drop off most of the half-tones and the colors get a little ruff. After that click in the middle of the line an drag to the upper left corner a little to bring in more light. The result is a nice aged paper effect. But if you still don't like it, press the Create new fill or adjustment layer button again, this time chose Levels, and play with the sliders till you're happy with the Old paper look.





21. So it's about all. In my case I added a couple of vector based borders the way you already know, to add a more Art Nouveau look, just be sure you don't forget to put them in the right blending mode and lower the opacity.



Good Luck!