Sticker Edge Peel

First of all.. let me told you this.. It ain't a sticker making tutorial at all.. so you’ll gonna need to got your own sticker prepared or you can use this delicious alternative, you are definitely allowed to use the Joe Corner sticker source files at the tuto we've learned earlier. What a nice man, am I! lmao..

I’m starting with (... my latest image on Joe Corner's ...), then filling the background color with a light gray so we can see clearly enuf the difference between the stage and the edge of our black sticker. Oughh.. I need some Granita around here fellas... would you bring me that such thing?!?!





Ok Ok Ok... Go on! From your Tools palette flying menu on the left side of your Photoshop, click the foreground swatch and enter the color code #d8d8d8. You've done with your Color Fill, then let's move on to the next level of this tut.. lmao.. Add a drop shadow to the Sticker layer. Follow this blending option set;






With your lovely drop shadow set, we’re gonna do something really kind of cool step... we’re gonna separate the drop shadow from its layer and put it on, below the Sticker layer. Next.. On the Palette Layer, Right + Click your layer style icon (f). See image below for detail..






Choose your Rectangular Marquee tool (M). Drag a nice sized square selection onto the stage (don’t forget to hold Shift to constrain the proportions). Rotate the selection by choosing Select > Transform Selection from the main menu.

Note : This kind of action, will give the Free Transform controls to you, but just to remind you from the Free Transform you used to, this transformation will not gonna be applied to the stuff on the layer, it's only be applied to the selection. You can use easily the Options bar at the top of Photoshop menus, enter 45° (it depends on your image size.. or whatever you'd like how the peeled sticker would gonna be, lol), move the selection to the left-right-bottom-corner of your Sticker and...

Hit -ofcourse- the Enter to commit the transformation, what else!






Gosh! Here's another tricky part, press Ctrl + Shift + J on your PC, and watch the magic happen.. See?!?!? Name it Residue (at some stage, not necesserelly needed, lol), hit Ctrl + J to duplicate that Layer via Cut and name it Peel. At this point, nothing on your workflow looks any different in certain part. For the moment, lets turn off the Residue.





This is it. With the Peel layer selected.. notice that I -in some particular action- like very much (highly recommend) to lock layers so that it can't move accidently. Straightly click on the Lock Transparent Px checkbox.






While we’re at it, let's go ahead and rotate the Peel layer so things are oriented correctly before we continue. What?!?!? Ofcourse.. We can do this easily by choosing Edit > Free Transform > Rotate 180° from the main menu. lmao.. what can I say?!?!






Allez! Allez! Allez! Change your Sticker's Drop Shadow.. layer color to a lighter shade color, something like.. turning down its layer's Fill Opacity into about 23% and simply using Menu Image > Adjustment > Brightness/Contrast... and follow this set.. should due nicely, ha ha..





Ctrl + Click on this layer again doods and add a Drop Shadow followed by a Gradient Overlay as shown below..










Now we're going to finish our job here.. The last layer, yupp.. Residue layer, on the Palette Layer, change the Blend Mode of your Residue layer into Luminosity then turn the Fill Opacity of that layer into about 5%. Nice!!!






Get any similarity of the image you've got with mine here?!?!
And that, as they say, is that! It's a wrap doods :)