Tutorial: Tape in Photoshop

1: Make a new document (300 by 300) and press Ctrl + A to select all.

2: Make your foreground colour 7B0000. Right click the canvas and choose "Fill". Choose foreground in the dropdown list. Hit Ok.

3: Make a new layer (ctrl + shift + N) and press D and then X on your keyboard.

4: Choose the "Rectangular Marquee Tool" and make a selection similar to this:

5: Choose the "Lasso Tool" and hold down the Alt button and make a selection (that deletes) like this:

6: And do the same in the bottom so it looks similar to this:

7: Right click the canvas and choose "Fill". Choose foreground in the dropdown list. Hit ok. 8: Go to the Layers pallete and reduce the Opacity to 90%.

8: Make a new layer (Ctrl + Shift + N) and click on the "Brush Tool" and right click the canvas, click the little, blue arrow that points right and choose a grunge brush (big enough to fill the selected area. (Go to [url=http://google.com]Google[/url] and search for "grunge photoshop brushes" if you do not have any.)

9: Press D on your keyboard. Now click once in the selected area and go to the Layers pallete and change the Opacity to 9%.

10: Merge the grunge layer with the white tape layer. (Ctrl + E.) 10: Press Ctrl + t to move the tape. This is what I got:

Here I have illustrated the see-through on different colours:

Enjoy! :D