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Create a new document 3x3 inches, 300 ppi.
Choose the Rectangular Marquee tool.
On the options bar, select the following settings: New selection, Feather 0 px, and style normal (you can set specific sizes if you’d like to as well for your stripes by selecting style: fixed size and then enter the width and height dimensions).
Click (zero) to make your canvas fit the screen and then to zoom out one step so you can see the edges of your canvas.
Now using the marquee tool draw out a stripe/rectangle over the square.
Select the fill tool (the icon that looks like a bucket, sometimes it’s hidden behind the gradient tool – just right click on the tool showing and you’ll see both the bucket and the gradient icon and you can then select the bucket fill.)
Fill the selection with a color. For this tutorial I’m filling with shades of black, gray, and white to show how the different blending methods affect it later, and to allow me to save this as a template for future uses.
Use to repeat the shape and then select the move tool to move the top stripe to a new location on the square. If you’d like to change the width of this new stripe and make sure the box on the options bar to show the Transform Controls is checked. Resize your rectangle and then click on the Move Tool to apply the new transformation. If you’d like this stripe to be a different color, fill the shape with a new shade of black, gray or white.
Continue the step above until you have a pattern established. Remember this is a patter that will be repeated on your full size paper (at 3 in, it will be repeated 4 times at 100%) so only put each stripe that you want to repeat one time in this pattern square.
Once your pattern is done, save it as a psd file, you will be able to manipulate the colors later to use on any paper in the future.
Now when you’re ready to make a paper, determine what colors you want the stripes to be, or leave it in blacks and grays if you just want the blend modes to affect an existing paper you already have. To change the colors, select the fill bucket as you did when making the pattern and select each stripe by clicking on them in the layers window, or by holding your button as you click on the stripe on the canvas.
Once you have your stripes ready, select the crop tool. On the options bar, set the width to 3 in (the same width as your pattern canvas) and your height to 2 in. Make sure your resolution is set to 300 pixels/inch.
Take your crop tool and draw across the canvas in the middle from edge to edge. Select the move tool to finalize the crop. (If you have any stripes that don’t make it all the way to the edge of your canvas, when you use it as a pattern fill there will be a break in the pattern. By doing this crop it will eliminate those stripes that may be off slightly.)
On the menu bar, select Edit: Define pattern.
The window that opens will allow you to set a name for your pattern. It will default to whatever your pattern was saved as, you can change it if you’d like or leave it.
You may choose to save this particular pattern as well in case you need it further, but be sure to rename it since you’ve colorized it now.
Now open a file, 12in x 12in at 300 ppi.
Fill this background layer with the base color you want your paper to be.
Select to create a new layer, name the layer stripe pattern and click ok.
Select the stripe pattern layer on the layers window. Select the paint bucket fill tool and fill this layer with any color you want – this won’t be seen later. For the stripe layer, on the layers window, set the fill to 0%.
Double click the icon on the layers window for the stripe layer. The layer style window will open, and click on pattern overlay. In the center, click the down arrow to the right of the pattern icon and scroll to the bottom and select your pattern we saved earlier. You can play with the blend mode, the opacity, and the scale in this window until you get the look on the paper you’d like. Be sure the box for “link with layer” is checked. Click OK to go back to your paper.
You now have a striped paper. You can now add any additional layers, overlays and textures to customize the look of your paper.
Be sure when you’re done to save it as a jpg to use it as a paper.
Another way to create a quick stripe paper to go with a paper you already have is to open a solid(ish) paper you already have rather than opening a NEW file. Follow the steps above from where we created the new stripe layer.
For this example above, I used a pink solid paper I already had (one made by me for a crop freebie at SBB) and played with the blend modes, and change the scale % to get the stripes to repeat more often to achieve this look.
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