Charred Effect

1. Okay so first open a new canvas (600x600 transparent) but the size isn't really important. Use the fill bucket to make the entire layer white.

2. Now make a new layer on top. Take the rectangular marquee tool and make a large selection in the new layer.

3. Using the paint bucket, fill your selection black and then set the blending mode of the layer with the selection to lighten. This will make it appear as though your selection is empty again (but it is so not empty ;)

4. Now go to the blending options of the layer with the selection and choose the stroke option. Give your stroke the same specs as mine.

5. Now that you have given it a stroke, make the original bottom white layer invisible and deselect the selection Ctrl+D, and now your selected area will look black again. Go to the color picker and choose a good light brown (AB7D71 or just use this) take this color and use it to fill your black square.

6. Now take the eraser tool (140 px, 0% hardness) and just start erasing the bottom of the brown square. Now it looks like it got burned…amazing! Here is one I made.