{"id":1811,"date":"2004-08-31T08:30:46","date_gmt":"2004-08-31T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2004-08-31T08:30:46","modified_gmt":"2004-08-31T13:30:46","slug":"how-to-tear-a-hole-in-digital-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1811","title":{"rendered":"How to Tear a Hole in Digital Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s tutorial time! I’d kind of promised to do this a while ago, so here goes. This was all done with Adobe Illustrator, but I’m sure there’s similar functionality in other programs.
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  1. Draw a square. Or a circle, or an irregular polygon. Whatever the shape is that you want to have torn out of the paper, draw one of those. I’m using a square here because it’s easy. Once you’ve drawn it, duplicate it and line it up exactly over top of the original. You’ll need the duplicate later.<\/li>\n
  2. Put a line texture on the frontmost square. I’m using the ‘Pencil Brush’ with a stroke weight of 2.<\/li>\n
  3. Make the textured line the same color as the background paper. White is easiest… In this step, I also expanded the line from a texture into a shape by going up to the the ‘Object’ menu and selecting ‘Expand Appearance.’ This is important for the next step.<\/li>\n
  4. Grab all of the white-filled line fragments and give them a drop shadow. Just the line fragments. If you grab the whole square, you’ll just get a square drop shadow and that’s kind of boring. You may need to futz with the settings a bit until you get something that you like.<\/li>\n
  5. Remember that duplicate shape from step 1? Bring it to the front. It should block all the stuff you spent so much time creating.<\/li>\n
  6. Select everything, then go to the ‘Object’ menu and select ‘Clipping Mask > Make.’ This clips out the drop shadow from the outside of the box, leaving just the stuff from the inside. Ta-dah!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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