Tutorial – Hand Cut look and a Freebie

June 1, 2008
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Don’t you love the hand cut look of some layouts? It’s not hard to do. I made this layout as an example.

The following steps will guide you through how to do it in Photoshop CS3.

Open a new 12 x 12 inch file in Photoshop. I’ve flood filled mine to white so I can see what I’m doing.

Then, to create the square shape, add a new layer and set the fill colour for the shape, select the rectangular shape tool, select the fill option (this will fill the shape to your desired colour). Click and drag a rectangle.

Make sure that your shape layer is selected and click on filter > distort > wave

A new dialog box will pop up with the settings to make the edge wavy.

Set the number of generators to 5; wavelength min 1 and max 999; amptitude min 1 and max 5; scale both at 100% and the type at Sine. Click ok. If you would like a bigger curve, increase the max amplitude. See if you can turn your square into a hedge hog by increasing the max amplitude :)

If you want to distort the layers more, you can also use the warp tool.


Create a new layer and repeat the steps above for as many shapes as you need. Then, when you have all your shapes, you can start to insert papers and photos above the shape layer that you want it to appear in and clip it (ctrl-alt-G) to the shapes.

If the pictures are too small, click on them and Internet Explorer will take  you to the bigger version.

I’ve made a template of the layout and you can download it from NO LONGER AVAILABLE.


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0 Responses to Tutorial – Hand Cut look and a Freebie

  1. maggie on June 1, 2008 at 5:02 pm

    Great tut! do you mind if I link it to my site?
    Maggie

  2. Chantilly Lace on June 1, 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Feel free to link it to your blog or site.

  3. Crissa(Geekette) on June 1, 2008 at 5:52 pm

    Oh my what a great tutorial!! I’m going to have to remember this one. Love it!!

  4. Mary on June 1, 2008 at 7:26 pm

    Thanks so much for the template ;)

  5. Roxanna on June 2, 2008 at 2:09 am

    great tutorial – thanks!!

  6. LuAnn on June 2, 2008 at 4:37 am

    Excellent tutorial! I’ll have to come back and give this a whirl!!!

  7. Carin / Carinspixels on June 2, 2008 at 4:50 am

    Wow thanks for this awesome tutorial, I love it!

  8. Jupiter, Florida on June 2, 2008 at 10:44 am

    cool tutorial, thanks! :)

  9. Karen Latham (Scraper 25) on June 2, 2008 at 11:33 pm

    Thanks for this tutorial – digi scrapbooking is something that I would so love to get into – just might have to have a play around with this.

  10. Donna on June 4, 2008 at 8:28 pm

    Love the Tute! I am definitely going to give this one a whirl. I hadn’t considered using this sort of ‘paper scraping’ look in digi – bit its fabulous! Thanks for sharing it :)

  11. Shana a.k.a. ScrapShana on June 6, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Great freebie and tut! Thanks for sharing!!

  12. Julie P on June 7, 2008 at 12:19 am

    awesome tutorial, thank you!
    also thank you for the template. :)

  13. Michelle on July 2, 2008 at 2:42 am

    Fabulous tutorial- thanks for sharing!

  14. Canadian Free Stuff on December 31, 2008 at 5:11 am

    Thanks for sharing. Nice Tutorial. Now to go and try it.

  15. Heather T. on May 16, 2010 at 6:15 am

    Oh, that’s fun! Never thought of using the distort tool… =)



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