How to create a lined paper

Hey all my fellow bloggers!!! yahhh that’s right I’m back with a new cool tutorial for you guys. I’m going to teach you how to create a lined paper in Photoshop so lets get started.

Step 01

I have no idea why i have to type this all the time but i have to. Open up Photoshop and create a new document. Size is totally up to you I’m using 750 x 600 for mine. For the background you can use a image or a color im using a ash color for mine.

Step 02

Take out the rectangle tool (U) and select the white color on your color pallet. after you get the color selected draw a nice white rectangle across your canvas.This is the paper base so you can mess with the size for your need.

After you get something like that its time to add a nice shadow to our paper. In order to do that take out the blending options of that rectangle layer by simply double clicking on that layer in the layer pallet.Apply the following shadow effect after you get the blending options.

When you are done with that you should get something like this.

Step 03

Time to add the lines to our paper. Just like we did before take out the rectangle tool (U) this time select a light blue color (c2daff) on your layer pallet.First draw a vertical line on the corner of the paper something just like this.

Before we continue to the horizontal lines there is something we can do to give our paper a more realistic effect.Get elliptical marquee tool out(M) and cut two small circle from the corner of the paper. One one the top.one on the bottom just like this

Now you can continue with drawing the horizontal lines to finish our paper. Here’s how it looks afterwards

Step 04

This is the best part. Now we are going to create sellotapes to stick our paper to the background.First of all take out the rectangle tool(U) and a draw a nice rectangle shape for our sellotape. After that you have to rotate your sellotape to the side to make it more realistic just like you do for real. Well we all know how to do that don’t we just go to edit-free transform or the hot-keys ctrl+T and rotate to something like this

Now the fun part time to mess with the effects to give the sellotape it’s deserved look.Just like before take out the blending options out and apply the following effects.

Here is the gradient used in above picture

After you are done with those effects time to drop the fill down to 0%

Now you should have something like this

Now it’s time to bring out your creativity. Duplicate the sellotape layer and move it to other corners,add a new background,add some text or do what ever you like to make it more creative. Here’s something i came up with