PixelPaper Paper Effects

Pixelpaper is a remarkable collection of filters that turn your images into folded, crumpled, and crinkled pieces of paper. PixelPaper allows you to Bend your image, turn in the sides of it with a curl. Crinkle and Crumple together your image for it to resemble a balled up piece of paper thats been smoothed out. Crunch the edges of your images making them look damaged and distorted. Anywhere you want a crease or fold PixelPaper gives you the power to do it. Here’s a quick look how.

Target Image:

Original Image:

-Load image into Twisting Pixels from Photoshop.
-Go to your menu find Filter find Twisting Pixels click on Twisting Pixels. If you are not running this under Photoshop then launch the Twisting Pixels application and choose “Open” under the file menu.

1. Folding your image

1.1. On your menu find Filter find PixelPaper and add Fold.

1.2. Change Fold Amount for a more dramatic crease.
1.3. Change horizontal and vertical folds to 2 folds each, with the sliders.

1.4. Shrink image slightly with the Shrink Image slider. This gives the folds room for the shadows and the perspective.
1.5. Make the shadow darker. Find the tab labeled Lights select Shadow Color and adjust slider to fit your preference. Higher settings give darker shadow colors

2. Adding texture

2.1. Find the tab labeled Surface
- Hit the button labeled Bumpmap...
- This should bring up a standard open dialog where you can load different textures..
2.2. To view these textures change the images from List to Thumbnails. If you are on Mac OSX then when you click on each JPG file you can see a preview in the right column.

-Choose a desirable texture. I chose Asphalt_3. Asphalt_3.
-Adjust your surface by changing the bumpmap strength and scale.

2.3. Your end product should resemble this:

This tutorial written and sponsored by Twisting Pixels