Photoshop is useful for creating illustrations with special edge effects. Janee Aronoff offers lots of tutorials on her site, MyJanee.com.

In her tutorial on creating a torn paper, you will not only learn how to make a torn paper effect, but you will also get some practice with some interesting techniques, including the following:

• Making a texture (Wheathatch paper and Cotton Scroll paper)
• Using a Layer Mask
• Making a Shadow in a difficult situation.

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