The original idea comes from a painting by the artist Jim Warren.

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1) Open a new image 300X300 transparent.

2) Now fill your image with a texture like crumpled paper.

3) Then merge all (flatten), Then open your layer pallet and make the merged image a new layer by double clicking on it and clicking OK. It will now be called layer 1.

to get this

4) Now pick the image you want to come through and make a copy (Ctrl + C) and paste as new layer (Ctrl + L) on the first image and move it to where you want it to come through. Note: An image with clawed hands would be best if you have one.

used this to get this

5) Now with the first image as active,   you want to start selecting sections of the image you want to show through. Use the freehand tool set on freehand. Note: You need to make the area your opening larger then the area you want to show through so you can see some of the curl.

Like this

6) With the area selected go to Image + filters + Mac's Page curl. And have it curl back the textured image to open the area to show through.

this is showing what it will look like after you drag layer 2 under layer one.

Continue to do this until all areas you want through are showing except claws or fingers or whatever needs to be through in another area. (Claws in this case.)

See next step to get ear's out!!!

7) Now lets clean it up and add the touches like the ear's so it looks like it coming through.

Move the #1 layer over the #2 layer  so you have it looking like the pic above.

Now with the erase tool erase all the stuff you don't want like the leftover texture to finish opening the face, the area to open the ear's and so forth.

8) Now lets do the claws (move the #1layer back over the #2 layer so you can see what to select) Now by using the erase tool and going around each claw one at a time (you cant see what your removing don't worry we will clean it up in the next step just make sure your only erasing the law area zoom in for better accuracy. The + on the number key pad will do this for you). (Remember you must have the textured layer (layer 1) active).

9) Now move the layer 2 over top of layer one in the layers pallet this will put the textured layer over the top of the image layer.

10) Now lets dress up the claw's so they look like they've tore through the image. First finish erasing the textured area to make the claws show through then using the airbrush tool   set on 1 pix and black as your foreground color spray around the back of each claw so it looks like it's punctured the paper or image.

11) Now merge all (flatten) and crop image to a nice size, add what ever touches you want and save and your done.

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Here are a couple Tags made by one of our members using this tutorial!

Great Job Mary!

Maradot2