THE CRAFT
The paste-up
Kraft, one ink, scissors · photographs cut out by hand and laid on brown paper.

5 steps
- STEP 1 · LAY THE BROWN PAPERMaterial → DOCUMENT · INKS & STOCK, and press the brown chip in the Stock row · Kraft. The whole page becomes a sheet of parcel paper, fibres and all, and it is carried into every export. If you would rather have it as a layer you can cut into, take KRAFT off the paper shelf instead: same paper, torn at its edges.
- STEP 2 · BRING A PHOTOGRAPH AND FREE ITDrop a photograph on the sheet and press Isolate in the left rail. One press cuts the background away and the subject becomes its own tight piece. This is the step the rest depends on: the scissors and the screen both want a subject, not a rectangle.
- STEP 3 · CUT IT OUT WITH SCISSORSEffects → CUT & PAPER → Photo Edges, and set the style to Scissors. The blade walks round the subject you just freed in straight snips, corner to corner, the way a hand cuts · a little wide of the edge, over-running now and then at a turn. Size says how far out it cuts and how long each snip is; Variation deals a different hand.
- STEP 4 · ONE INK, THE PAPER BETWEEN THE DOTSEffects → PRINT & PRESS → Halftone. Set Ground to The sheet and the screen stops laying white behind itself · only the dots print, and the kraft shows through between them. Take the pitch out to about 14 so the dots are coarse enough to read as dots. Ink → Your ink prints them in the colour you are holding rather than black.
- STEP 5 · PASTE THEM DOWNArrange the cut pieces on the brown, overlapping, a little off square. Leave the shadow off · a pasted photograph sits flat on the paper, and a drop shadow is the one thing that tells the eye it is a screen. Set a title in a heavy serif over the top and the sheet is a cover.
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