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This tutorial was written 29th October, 2003 by Kristell©.
You may not copy this tutorial but are welcome to link to it from your own group or site.
For this tutorial you will need the following:
Eyecandy 3.1
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~Let's Begin~
1. Put foreground as black and background as white.
2. Find a graphic that you would like to turn into a folded piece of paper. Resize your image so that the width can be divided easily into the number of folds you require. I want four folds on this occasion so I am making my image width 600 (I want four folds - each will be a width of 150). Ensure your colours are 16 million. Save as foldedpaper
3. ShiftD to copy your foldedpaper. Then on the copy - Select all, then delete to give you a white canvas.
4. On your blank image - you need to resize to take account for the folds etc., to go to image resize, percentage of original 150% - (you can always crop later!)
5. Go back to your foldedpaper image. Click on selection tool. Choose rectangle. Then double click on selection tool and enter the co-ordinates for your first fold. (you will see the size of the image at the top of the box - use this to help you) My first co-ordinates are:
6. Cut the selected part and open blank image and paste your selection as a new layer.
7. Go back to original image, double click on the selection tool
8. Enter your next set of co-ordinates for the next fold.
9. Cut. Open blank image where you placed the first section and paste again as a new layer.
10. Repeat steps 4 - 7 until you have cut and pasted all your folds to new layers.
(for a 600 wide image your left and right co-ords will be: 1) 0, 150 2)150, 300 3)300, 450 4)450,600
Your top co-ordinate should always be 0, and your bottom should always be whatever the length of your image is)
11. Move all your 'pieces' into order.
12. Go into layers and turn off the visibility on all your folds except for the first one and the background. Ensure that the layer you want to work on is highlighted or you will have a blank image!
13. Click on your deformation tool. Hold the ctl button and then click on the middle handle and move upwards until you get an angle you are happy with for your first fold. Save
14. Click on your mover tool to remove the deformation tool.
15. Click on your layer palette and turn on the visibility for the next fold move it across and line up with your previous fold. Use the deformation tool to get the right angle as in step 10 but this time hold the ctl button and pull downwards. Play around with your deformation handles to get angles you are happy with. Save
16. Repeat step 12 - for the rest of your folds. Don't forget - if you are not happy just press undo and try again. Save (if you haven't already done so!)
17. This bit is clever… it's the shading on the map. Go back to your first fold layer. ( should be layer 1)
18. Ensure your foreground is black and background is white.
19. Selections, Select All, Selections Float - see how just your first fold is outlined (make sure you are on the right layer in your layer pallette!)
20. New raster layer - call it copy first fold
21. Click on your gradient tool and pick fading foreground angle 270. Flood Fill your selection
22. Reduce opacity on this level to between 50% and 75% or whatever suits your angles - in your layer palette. Select None - Save.
23. Go to your next fold layer. Selections, Select All, Selections, Float. Add new raster layer. Go to your gradient and change the angle to 90. Fill your selection and reduce the opacity again to something that you are happy with.
24. Repeat steps 15 - 20 for the rest of your folds.
25. Deselect. Save.
26. Turn off the visibility on your background layer then Merge visible. Turn back on visibility on your background and select none and save. Make sure
27. Now it's time for the shadow. I prefer to use eye candy 3.1 perspective shadow on these settings - but it will all depend on your angles etc., so play around.
28. Merge, crop and save and it's finished!! Well done!
If you want to fold an image with a length longer than the width, rotate it to start with and then rotate it back when you are finished.
