Hello everyone!  I am dropping in today with a quick tip for creating a folded paper look in Photoshop (or PSE).  You can see the tip in action on this page:

Notice what appears to be paper folds across the background paper?  Those were created with several paper strips shadowed only on one side.  I used the background and paper strips from the “oh so awesome” Fiddle-Dee-Dee’s The Magic of You {Dressed Up} templates.  All you have to do to create this effect is place a background paper on the bottom.  Then clip the same paper (in the same location) to each of the paper strips.  When you add the drop shadow it makes it look like the paper was actually folded in a flattened accordion style.  Here are the drop shadow settings I used:

And that is all there is to it!  I hope you have fun creating your own accordion fold backgrounds. :)

Until next time ~
Judie (HeyJude)