Page Curl Effect Tutorial
With this tutorial, I am going to show you how to achieve a page curl effect in just a few easy steps. This tutorial use the Warp filter so it’s for Photoshop CS2 only.
Let’s start by opening the photo you want to apply the effect to. I used this stock photo
![Original photo for the photoshop tutorial](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/original.jpg)
The first thing that we are going to is to unlock the background layer. To do this simply double click on the padlock icon besides your photo thumbnail in the layers palette.
![unlock background layer](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/unlocklayer.png)
Now select the Rectangular Marquee Tool
![rectangular marquee tool](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/rectangualarmarquee.png)
and select a rectangular area in the corner that you want to apply the effect. In the screenshot below I have highlighted my selection.
![rectangular selection at the left bottom corner](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/selection.jpg)
Now select the gradient tool and draw a black to white gradient in your selection. In this case I drew the gradient from the top right corner to the bottom left corner.
![black to white diagonal gradient](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/gradient.jpg)
Now deselect (Select->Deselect) or (Ctr+D)
Next go to Edit->Transform->Warp.
Drag the bottom left point towards the center like in the screenshot below.
![warp the image](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/warp.jpg)
And here is our result.
![warp result](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/warpresult.jpg)
Finally apply a Drop Shadow style. These are the settings I used.
![drop shadow settings](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/dropshadow.jpg)
And here is my final result.
![final result of page curl photoshop training](/content_images/AdobePhotoshop/DrawingTechniques/curl/final.jpg)
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