In the Web 2.0 world one of the new things I have noticed is the desire to put a little page curl on images to make them look like stickers or book pages. People are doing it on Facebook, Blogger, Orkit.. all over. Why not join the crowd? It will be as popular as rounded edges before you know it.
This Blog even is currently using this little visual tid bit.
Over the past week I was asked a few times how to do this and make it look believable. So many times a page curl is put on an image and it just looks very plastic. Many folks are just putting a grey gradient on the back and frankly it looks a little cheap and a bit lazy.
The good news is, you can be lazy and have a good clean page curl effect on your digital images. I popped together a quick video to explain how to make it happen. I know everyone out there isn't a photoshop user but many of you are and some are just breaking into some how-to sort of things.
Hope this helps!
This is perfect for digital scrapbooking too! I use PSE9 but should be able to figure it out. ;) Thanks!
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