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DESIGNING EFFECTS
14. Now it's time to add more of the designing effects in the collage. I love to use 'repeating' images in my work. They always give this lovely touch to all design work.
First, you select your rectangular selection tool. Then you select a part in your collage that you''d like to copy and paste into little repeating images.
Now when you select, copy and the paste the selection, it'll automatically paste the selection onto a new layer, right?
So I paste it 3 times in this piece, therefore I have 3 new layers. I move them around to where I want them.
Then I play around with the opacity of each layer.. Once I see them good, I merge them together. Just the 3 layers for the cropped image.
15. Then I add the background for this part. I choose a creamy color.
I create a new layer underneath that layer and use a RECTANGULAR SHAPE tool to create the background.
I go back to the images' layer and change the mode to COLOR BURN.
You can always change it to other LAYER MODES, ie. MULTIPLY, LUMINOUSITY, etc.
16. It's time to add the brush effects now. I want to make the background to have the rough edges or just if it looks ripped. So I select that layer of the background, and use the rectangular selection tool I select the right side. I use a selection tool as a guide to make sure I don't go overboard when I apply the brushes/eraser.
I then use my eraser tool with the small rough brush tip. I erase parts of the background that's selected.
17. Create a new layer again now. It's time to create some kind of border.
The ripped looking border is always nice. So I select my LASSO TOOL 
and drag it like if I'm drawing a shape along the edges.
Then I pick a creamy color the same as the one I used for the previous background and I FLOOD FILL the lasso selected area.
18. Now it looks flat. I select my eraser again to create more roughness around the edges.
I use the small rough brush tip for my eraser, with lower opacity/flow than 100%.
19. As you can see below, I repeat that step for the left side. Now I also add a new layer on top the last gradient layer I created,
and fill it with lighter tones of gradient fill, to create more blended colors.
With the new gradient fill, I want change the mode to SOFTLIGHT with 30% of LAYER FILL.
20. I want to make the colors paler somehow. So somewhere in between the base images' layers and the top gradient fill layers,
I create a new layer and FLOOD FILL it with a creamy color, change it to COLOR with LAYER FILL of 80%.
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