26) Now you have an image that pretty much resemble an old piece of paper. You can further add rips to the image and have its margins darken.If you want to add rips to the shape, use the Brush tool () which you will find in Photoshop's tool bar. Select a round brush. Its main characteristics should be: Master Diameter of 1 pixel and the Hardness of 0%, Mode should be normal and flow and opacity should both be 100% as shown in figure 23.

It is important that the active layer is the mask of the Basic Shape.

27) Hold the D key to make sure that your fore- and background color are black and white (everything that is black on the mask will hide that specific part of the poster, so we have to make sure that our foreground color is black. If it isn't, then just press the X key on your keyboard to switch fore- and background color).Having the brush selected, just paint some rips at random. Before you add such a rip, it is recommended to zoom in the picture (a value of between 300-800% should be ok to have a more precise control over what you are doing).

28) You can darken the picture’s edges. Activate the top layer and click on the “Create a new layer” icon. Name it “Dark Edges”. Go to Menu Edit > Fill as shown in figure 24 and select 50% Gray in the box that reads “Use”. Click “OK”. For this layer, change the blending mode “Soft Light”. Clip the layer (Ctrl + G) and select the Burn tool () found in the tool bar.Select a medium soft brush (set its size to about 30 and set the range to “Shadows”. Keep the “exposure” setting to 100%.Move the cursor over some parts of the edge of the poster. Don't make the entire edge darker. You can leave some areas like so to give the entire image a more natural look. After you're done, switch to a slightly larger soft brush (set its size to 70 and set its exposure to about 50%) and make the inside of the edge in some area a little darker. After adding the darker edge, you could increase the opacity of the Texture layer from 25% to 35%.