Setting everything up...
Firstly we need to set up the white frame our photo is going to sit in and give it a light grey stroke.
1) Grab the rectangular marquee and draw out a selection about the size shown below.
2) Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Colour and fill the selection with white.
3) Now make sure you have the fill layer highlighted in the layer palette and choose the 'effects' button at the bottom of the palette. Add a 1px stroke thats light grey.
Adding a picture into the frame...
1) With your white fill layer selected hold down CTRL (or command for apple users) and click it in the layers palette. This will bring up a selection around your frame.
2) Create a new layer and head on up to Select > Modify > Contract and choose 4 pixels.
3) Open the image you wish to use in Photoshop. Copy it (CTRL + A to select it all, and then CTRL + C to copy).
4) Back in our original document go to Edit > Paste Into. This will paste your image inside the selection. You can now resize it easily inside here by pressing CTRL (or command) + T and holding shift to scale the image keeping it in proportion. You should now have something that looks like the image below.
Lets add the shadow ...
Now its time to give the image its shadow that creates the illusion of the photo peeling at the edges.
1) Zoom into your creation so far, take the pen tool, and draw out a shape similar to the following (click to enlarge);
2) Now still with the pen tool, right click and choose 'Make Selection'. Click ok, and then ok at the next option your given. Be sure to make sure that the feather option is set to zero.
3) Now we have a selection we need to fill it. Head on up to Layer > New Fill Layer > Solid Colour and choose black. Now turn your attention to the layers palette. Drag this new fill layer you just created in this step below all the others (except the background). You can see the result of this in the image below.
4) To make the shadow more realistic we'll add a blur. Go to Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur and change the value to 2.0. Now play with the shadows position and the opacity of the layer. A handy tip at this stage is to press CTRL (or command) + T, with your shadow layer selected. This will enable you to play around with the dimensions/proportions of your shadow - enabling you to make the shadow as wide, or as long as you see fit. You should have something similar to the image below.
The Finishing Touch
All thats left now is to do the same to the other side of our photo. However we don't need to repeat the steps from the section above.
1) Simply right click the shadow layer in your layer palette and choose 'Duplicate Layer' .
2) Press CTRL (or command) + T, right click and choose 'Flip Horizontal'.
3) Now just position this second Shadow layer to the left side of your photo frame and your done! Your completed Photo Peel Effect should look like the one below.
Enjoy.
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