Atomic Cupcake crumpleed Edges Action for Photoshop 7.0, Photoshop CS, or Photoshop CS2 Part I -- Installation 1. Copy the "Atomic Cupcake Crumple.atn" file to the location of your choice. 2. Open Photoshop. Open the Actions palette (from the "windows" menu section). 3. Click on the triangle button in the top corner of the Actions pallette and click "load actions" Open the file from the location you chose in step 1. Part II -- Using the Action 1. Open the image you would like to crumple. This can be a background, paper, a photo, etc. 2. Select an area with the marquee tool. It can be any shape you like (see the shapes section below for ideas.) 3. Click on the name of the action in the Actions palette "AC Crumpler" 4. Press play. (The triangle button at the bottom.) The crumpled version will be created in a new document -- leaving your original paper or photo in it's original condition. Part III -- Ideas for Shapes So what shapes can you crumple? Letters, numbers, squares, circles, tags, hearts, stars, and anything you can dream up... Read on. 1. The obvious squares and rectangles: a. Use the marquee tool on a background image. b. Press play on the action. 2. Circles and ellipses: b. Click and hold on the marquee tool to bring up "elliptical marquee tool". c. Select a circle on a background image. d. Press play on the action. 3. Letters and text: a. Type the words you want to crumple on a new layer above a background image. b. Hold the control button and click on the text layer in the layers pallette. This selects the shape of the text. c. Switch back to your image layer. Now you have your paper selected but with the shape of the text! d. Press play on the action. 4. Other shapes: You can use the "control-click" method from to copy any shape. a. Use photoshop's "custom shape tool" to make a shape on a layer above a background image. b. Hold the control button and click on the shape's layer in the layers pallette. This selects the shape of the shape. c. Switch back to your image layer. Now you have your paper selected but with the shape's shape! d. Press play on the action. 5. Crumpling tags and other digital scrapbooking downloads you may be using in your project: a. Open the item. b. Hold the control button and click on the items's layer in the layers pallette. This selects the shape of the item. c. Press play on the action. Since the action creates a whole new item, it will not change your original file, so you can save both for future use. 6. Freehand shapes: a. Use the lasso tool on a background image. b. Press play on the action. If you own other Atomic Cupcake actions, try using them in combination with the crumpler. For example, tear a shape with the edge tearer, ctrl-click the layer to reselect it, then chalk it with the chalk edger, ctrl-click the layer to reselect it, then crumple it!