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Just playing with some Photoshop CS2

Thought I'd give this old parchment / map process a try. Kinda cool and fun. Not bad for about 15 min of playing. I used mostly just a parchment or canvas texture/pattern, a map stock image, layer masks, the Selection and Burn/Dodge tools. I can come up with some uses for this method... like pirate treasure maps! Arrgh!

I'd like to make the the edges a bit sharper, as they look too blurred. I'm also trying to figure out how to make it look like the paper has depth; if you look at a torn piece of parchment, it actually seems to have layers. Not sure how to accomplish that.

UPDATE: I've had some people ask how I did this. Well, I don't really write the steps down when I'm playing with it trying to figure things out. And, I'm also horrible at remembering how I did it. I could save the history, but with trial-and-error photoshoping it could get very long and convoluted; not exactly in the exact step order. However, I did use methods I found from several tutorials around on DA and the web. I'll look them up and post them here.
Oooops. Guess I never did that...

Description
Just playing with some Photoshop CS2

Thought I'd give this old parchment / map process a try. Kinda cool and fun. Not bad for about 15 min of playing. I used mostly just a parchment or canvas texture/pattern, a map stock image, layer masks, the Selection and Burn/Dodge tools. I can come up with some uses for this method... like pirate treasure maps! Arrgh!

I'd like to make the the edges a bit sharper, as they look too blurred. I'm also trying to figure out how to make it look like the paper has depth; if you look at a torn piece of parchment, it actually seems to have layers. Not sure how to accomplish that.

UPDATE: I've had some people ask how I did this. Well, I don't really write the steps down when I'm playing with it trying to figure things out. And, I'm also horrible at remembering how I did it. I could save the history, but with trial-and-error photoshoping it could get very long and convoluted; not exactly in the exact step order. However, I did use methods I found from several tutorials around on DA and the web. I'll look them up and post them here.
Oooops. Guess I never did that...