How to make Ancient paper ...

This tutorial will show you how to quickly create from scratch a piece of paper and give it that trendy old/burned look.

Step 1

Opena new document, say 700x700px. Use whatever background color, itdoesn’t matter. Then on a new layer make a rectangle and fill it with alight brown. I used “#CDBDA7″. Now go to Filters > Noise > Addnoise. Check Gaussian and Monochromatic. The amount of noise to be useddepends on the size of the canvas. I used 2.5%. You should havesomething like this:Step 2

Now take a small hard brush and start erasing the edges to give it that torn look. Like this:Step 3

Nowto give it that old look, take the burn tool and with a smaller brushstart brushing along the edges. Then I used a larger soft brush andgave a few strokes in the middle too…This is just a quick one, to showyou how to do it, but if you spend some time it should look prettygood. Ok, my image now looks like this: Well,that’s about it. I went ahead and added some text and ornaments to it,I also used some grunge brushes to make it look stained and here’s whatI got: