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Intro:
What is "Corkboard"? Its a place where you and your friends can post photos and notes to one another in a shared spot. MySpace profile for Corkboard Photography with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
Step 1:
Start by opening a 500x259 px file. Select the Marquee Tool (press M, ), make a new layer and fill it with: #d7b78b
Step 2:
Now add some Noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise):
and you`ll have:
Step 3:
Now we need a border of 6px:
There a several ways to do it. One of them is to take the Pencil Tool with a diamenter of 6 px and Hardness of 0% and draw a border around the corkboard using this color: #8b4f13.
And this is your corkboard:
Step 4:
Let`s add a photography to it. Using Marquee Tool (Press M) make a selection:
and fill it with white. Then apply Drop Shadow using these settings:
Select a photography and using Edit > Transform > Scale or Ctrl+T shring the image to fit in your selection. Use for eg. Georgia font, Bold, size: 15px and write a text on it.
You can also add some scotch tape to hold your photo more realistic, select Lasso Tool (press L):
and fill it with: #ffcc00 then set the transparency to: 40%
Photoshop Tip: Use Burning Tool to make the tape more realistic. Use these settings:
Make sure you are on the 'scotch layer' and holding ALT key you`ll slide the tool over the tape twice:
Having this example you can duplicate the posting and write anything you like on it even to change the shape of the tape and stick it in a different position.
the result will be:
