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Adobe Photoshop is a powerful tool and allows you to create truly captivating effects. To achieve the effect of bending of a sheet of paper, in fact, we can use the transform tool to "bend" - really - a layer. With a few small steps can make the effect very realistic. The images presented below in this tutorial are examples and are made in low resolution. To improve the effect of using a high resolution, so you want to resize the image to the end and get an anti-aliasing on the edges.

STEP 1

Create a new document and add a layer, our sheet of paper - I made a red square:

STEP 2

Press Ctrl-T to activate the free transform. Click on the button or, from the Edit menu, choose Transform / Warp.

At this point, click and drag a corner to the center:

This is the basis. However, the effect is only partial. We can improve it by adding a few details.

STEP 3

We make our paper more complete. Draw something inside, even a simple border, on the same layer and repeat step 2.

As you can see only the edge is not affected but the whole figure of the layer. Also, if you try to overdo it, im dragging mouse during the alteration to the center of the sheet:

you can actually see the "back" of our layers. In fact, the layer is not treated as three-dimensional element. In fact there is no "back" of our paper. Photoshop "copy" the front making it appear "retro." We can use this property to our advantage. Then apply a gradient to the edge we want to fold, only a portion of it and try a gradient from black to transparent:

We have already improved the situation!

STEP 4

We can still improve the result. This time we use a gradient from black to white, impostanto the opacity to 50%:

Unìinteressante variation during the alteration, is to use a portion of the layer, as we did for the gradient, and act on distorting the controls:

Getting the first or second imagines alter depending on how:

In the second image I have reversed the gradient. This, in fact, decide the origin of the "light" and then 3-D effect.

STEP 5

The bending can be made even softer by acting on the edge of the alteration, adding a more realistic curvature:

The addition of a small shadow, then, makes it more realistic. To add a shadow with the magic wand select the folded corner. Add a new layer and fill it with black, applying a filter gradient.

Now back on the paper layer, reselect the corner with the magic wand, select the new layer you just created that contains our shadow and press Ctrl + Alt + I to invert the selection:

click on Add Layer Mask . So as to obtain:

To move the shadow click on the chain between the layer and the shadow mask. Select the layer on the left, the shadow, and move. Also applied an opacity of 50%.

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