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Leather Binding Effect

Author: Denis Williams Author's URL: tutorials2you.com More by this author

1. Lets start from color fill # 50280f

2. Apply filter texturizer/canvas with scaling 100% and relief 5.

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3. Now Apply filter artistic/palette knife:

stroke size - 15
stroke detail - 3
softness - 6

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4. Apply Gaussian blur radius - 4

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5. Make selection and copy it to new layer

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6. Now let's add some shadow using airbrush tool and most dark color that we will get from our texture using Eyedropper tool (I)

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7. Apply filter render/lighting (here is lot of setting so fell free to use any of that settings as you like)

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8. Apply filter texturizer/burlap to both layer with parameters

scaling - 200%
relief - 1

9. Select color and make stitches using "L" or "i" symbols

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10. Rasterize font and apply Bevel and Emboss with following parameters:

Pillow emboss;
Chisel soft;
depth 980%;
size 5pix;
soften 6pix.

Leather Binding Effect

That is it!

P.S. You can add shadow using airbrush and some light effects.