{"id":12250,"date":"2015-09-13T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-13T22:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=12250"},"modified":"2020-05-20T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-20T17:42:15","slug":"all-taped-up-how-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/all-taped-up-how-to\/","title":{"rendered":"All Taped Up {how-to}"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Layout credits: Everyday paper pak no. 17; Chevron Blends paper pak; Click.masks no. 26; Everyday paper pak 18; Word Travels InstaArt; Everyday paper pak no. 13; Nature’s Sketchbook Love Grows Element pak; Encouragement Art Journal page pak; Winged beauty element pak; Quiet of my heart page pak; Everyday Scrap.Words. Alles von Cottage Arts; Fonts: Appareo-Light, cattleyascript<\/span><\/p>\n

Post by Rikki Donovan<\/em>. Hi, Rikki here, to show you a great, non-destructive way to make digital tape look more realistic. I have started this layout and added a piece of tape from the Quiet of my Heart Page Pak<\/a> beneath the torn paper on the right.<\/p>\n

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First give the tape a slight drop shadow. These are my settings:<\/p>\n

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Let’s show which paper is on top of the other, so you see which direction the tape is stuck on the paper. It goes from top right to bottom left.<\/p>\n

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To emphasize\/show the edge of the paper underneath the tape you will use the dodge and burn tool on the Toolbar.<\/p>\n

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But before using dodge and burn you want to make sure your method is non-destructive. You create a layer above the tape, activate the new layer, ctrl+click on the tape layer so you see the marching ants around your tape and fill the empty layer above with 50% gray. That gray layer you set to Overlay blend mode. Now you cannot see the gray layer any longer.<\/p>\n

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The layers panel now looks like this<\/p>\n

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And the layout just like before<\/p>\n

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Now you ctrl+click on the paper that is on top to select it; you will see marching ants around it.<\/p>\n

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You activate the gray layer above the tape and choose the dodge tool. Here are my settings<\/p>\n

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You rather want to use low settings and repeat what you are doing instead of doing too much at once.<\/p>\n

Now you dodge the tape along the ants within the selection, so that the side of the tape becomes slightly lighter.<\/p>\n

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Can you see the light edge to the right of the ants?<\/p>\n

Now you invert the selection, so that the outside of the paper is selected (Shift+Ctrl+I) and choose the burn tool. My settings are like this<\/p>\n

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Here it is even more important to keep the settings low, otherwise you will end up with tape that looks just too dark to be real.<\/p>\n

Now you burn the tape along the ants, this time on the other side, so the tape becomes a little darker.<\/p>\n

Like so:<\/p>\n

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If you changed the blend mode of the gray layer to Normal it would look like this:<\/p>\n

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Now I treated my second piece of tape the same way and it looks like this:<\/p>\n

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And here the two tapes together.<\/p>\n

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Now with all the layers visible again, this is my page so far. Doesn’t this look much more realistic?<\/p>\n

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Remember, if you find your tape affect too much, just lower the opacity of the gray layer a little to suit your taste.<\/p>\n

Here is a comparison of before and after<\/p>\n

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And this is my finished layout with a few more items and a title. Enjoy this simple yet useful technique!<\/p>\n

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Happy creating! Rikki and team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Layout credits: Everyday paper pak no. 17; Chevron Blends paper pak; Click.masks no. 26; Everyday paper pak 18; Word Travels InstaArt; Everyday paper pak no. 13; Nature’s Sketchbook Love Grows Element pak; Encouragement Art Journal page pak; Winged beauty element pak; Quiet of my heart page pak; Everyday Scrap.Words. Alles von Cottage Arts; Fonts: Appareo-Light, cattleyascript Post by Rikki Donovan. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-inspiration","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12250"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14181,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12250\/revisions\/14181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}