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    Professional Artist keithcurtis's Avatar
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    A sneaky, yet simple technique to produce paper wrinkles is to simply photograph a piece of crumpled and flattened printer paper. Heighten the contrast in Photoshop and place it over your color/dirt/burned edges/whatever layers in Photoshop. Change the layer transparency to multiply, (or experiment), and it will produce a very convincing texture.
    It is pretty quick and has the advantage of producing wrinkles which match the sorts of wrinkles actually created by crumpling paper, which follow distinct patterns not created by PhotoShop filters.

    For instance, if I want to create a scroll, I will make my wrinkles by rolling the paper. If I want to create something that looks like it was a folded road map, I'll fold the paper accordingly. Below is an example of the latter technique. Note that the Luger and the SS dagger were photographed separately and composited later.
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