Foil washi adds amazing visual interest to a paper planner. But it can also be just as visually striking in a digital environment! Here's a step by step guide on making foil washi strips in Photoshop:
1) Create a new document. Size will be dependent on your personal needs (thats what she said) b ut I tend to make mine about 1 inch x 5 inches with a dpi of 200
2) Select a foreground and a background color. You want them to be complementary but they also need to have enough contrast to make a striking foil effect.
3) Go to your FILTER menu, select RENDER and then CLOUDS.
4) Go back to FILTER -> NOISE -> ADD NOISE. You can play with the settings here. I keep mine at around 5% with the UNIFORM option selected.
5) Go to FILTER -> FILTER GALLERY -> DISTORT -> GLASS. I keep my distortion at around 20 and keep my smoothness around the low end. Texture is "Frosted". Hit OK
Note: if Filter Galley is greyed out on your screen it is because your channel is set too high. You can correct this by going to IMAGE -> MODE and selecting 8 BIT CHANNEL.
And that's it! You can add a curves adjustment and play with more contrast and highlights to really perfect the look you are going for. I hope this was helpful!!
