Torn Out Border - how is it done?

[macmonkey]

I've seen a lot of design work such as the piece below using a rough "torn" border. I'm just wondering if anyone has some nice tut's to get me up to speed with this.

I'd also like to learn a bit about the ornamentation around the title and artist name. You know the gold foil looking stuff. I imagine they pulled it off of a belt buckle or something and then filled it accordingly.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

 

[ronmatt]

With brushes, or if one is more inventive, scanning in a torn edge from a piece of paper. Either way, then just add a texture to it (them).

 

[theKeeper]

It's a mask applied to a layer above all the rest. And that paper texture fills the masked out layer. As ron stated specific types of brushes can create that jagged edge effect.

And for that multi-layered look, just double up on the masked paper layer, and apply a different shaped mask to the 2nd layer.

And give the topmost paper layer a slight drop shadow to enhance the depth effect.

That title frame is opened-ended. Could be a photo, could be lineart filled with gradients, or a metal effect from a plugin. That's not the toughest element in that artwork.

 

[Welles]

To ronmatt's answer, I'd add layer masks, too. I was going to write a short tutorial but went to the Adobe Studio Exchange to see if anybody had created torn paper brushes and ran across a great Janee tutorial...called... (wait for it...) Torn Paper! Its listed in the Textures & Special Effects category.

http://myjanee.home.insightbb.com/tutorials.htm

Now about the gold flourish. It is probably a vector shape brought into Photoshop and given a layer style to get the gold business. Then a layer mask has been applied to get the fading in and out. A bit like so... (the border)