Cork Board
Last updated 07 Jul 2006
Preview
Preview of what the finished product will look like
Tutorial
Now for what you came for!
2. Start by opening a new Document and make it whatever size you want your corkboard to be. I used 500 x 400. Now, using paint bucket, flood fill the entire thing a nice brown colour (#e2ce7a).
3. Go to Filter > Texture > Grain. Make your settings Intensity: 14, Contrast: 54, and Grain Type: Regular.
4. Now that you have the start of your board, lets make a post-it/to do list. Start by pasting a rectangle yellow coloured (#fff690) post-it. Don't worry about the size, we will be resizing it later anyways. Rasterize the shape.
5. Select a small portion of the bottom left hand corner of your image.
6. By using the Gradient Tool
, use the basic black, gray, and white gradient and fill in your selection portion.
7. Hit right click > Deselect so the area is no longer selected. Go Edit > Transform Path > Warp. Drag the bottom left hand corner so it covers the gradient.
8. Add some text onto your post-it.
9. Add a drop shadow onto your image by clicking the 'f' in your layers pallete (
) and going to Drop Shadow. Set your settings to the following.
10. By using the brushes you downloaded earlier (which you can get from ancient-secret.de), brush a tack onto your image. Merge all post-it layers together and then go to Edit > Transform Path > Rotate, and rotate your image a bit.
11. Now lets create a more difficult piece, the polariod. Start by finding the picture you want and pasting it onto your corkboard.
12. Use the Rectangle Tool
to paste a white box around the image like below (don't worry about the size). Change the opacity, Rasterize the shape layer, then delete any white part covering your image.
13. Change the opacity back to 100. Add a stroke to the white box, and it SHOULD add a border around your image as well. Make it black and size 2.
14. Now delete off the sides, bottom, or top until it looks like below.
15. Add some font to your image. Merge all the polariod layers together. Copy and paste it into a new file, then resize by about 75%. Copy and paste it back, then rotate.
16. Yes, I am aware that realistically speaking tape would NEVER work on a corkboard, I was just looking for a more creative way than tacks. To create the tape, paste a white box and turn the opacity to about 40-60, whichever you prefer.
17. Use the eraser a find a grunge brush to erase off the ends of the tape.
18. Rotate the tape and put it on each corner of the image.
19. Now onto the medals! Create a nice colour box (I used blue). Use the brushes you downloaded earlier (the crown looking one) to erase the bottom of the medal. Add some text and you're done!
20. Resize any images, rotate them, add drop shadows, and rearrange until you get what you like. Now crop the image so you have room outside your image.
21. Now to do the border! This part is VERY easy. Do what you did in your polariod step, but use brown. Delete any parts covering the corkboard and change the opacity back to 100.
22. Go to Filter > Artistic > Colour Pencil. (Make sure your background colours
are the brown colour you used on the border. Coloured Pencil goes off those colours).
23. Add a stroke to the image. Then go to Bevel and Emboss and select whichever one you like best with your border. I believe I used pillow emboss or outer emboss. Add a drop shadow as well. You can add lines reaching from corner to corner for a more realistic touch.
24. You have complete your corkboard!