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    Great (and timely) tutorial, Ascension. A couple of these techniques match exactly with some things I wanted to do with my current hand-drawn project so will come in very handy. Thanks!

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    Just a lil color mod because I wanted to play around with it some more
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ascension View Post
    25. Create a new layer and move it to the top of the layer stack. Grab the Paint Bucket tool and fill it with white. Switch over to black and grab a Pencil and make squiggly lines around the edge. Fill the area in with black. This is going to be the edges of our paper so put some rips and cracks on it and have fun. See Pic 25.
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    You can also create this layer by using RobA's Triple-Layer Sandwich (he uses it to created semi-random coastlines). Create a layer, set it to Overlay (or it might be Screen... I'll check my GIMP). Then you basically draw your rough border, invert selection (so the "border" is chosen), fill with black, Gaussian Blur (20+px), Create Solid Noise>Cloud>Random Seed Detail =15 X=16 Y=16 and then play with the layer's Levels. I find you can get some other nice help if you play with the Brightness/Contrast of the layer first, before playing with the Levels (it seems to lessen the "drop off" of some of the shapes).

    That's the method I used for my October Entry to get the distressed shape.
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    Oh sure. There's a ton of ways to do that...I was staying with the whole "hand-drawn" motif, though
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    Awesome tutorial! Love the look you have created. I can't rep you again yet but I will!
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    Great tutorial again Ascension and a wonderful example you created with it.
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    Wow... just wow! You never cease to amaze me.
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