Step 1:

Start a new document of size 350×350 pix.

Draw a Rectangle using the Rectangle Tool.

Step 2:

Now go to Edit>Transform>Perspective .

Drag the box edge to right like this

Step 3:

Now create a new layer and draw another Rectagle. Again use the perspective transform to adjust to the previous Rectangle. This time you need to pull up the edge. This is what I did.

Step 4:

Again Create a new layer and draw another Rectangle but this time on the top. You can also Edit>Transform>Skew to fit it on the top as pages. This is what I got.

As you see here the top portion has come out of the margin to fix that we can use the Polygon Lasso tool to make the unwanted selection and delete it. Something like this

Now press the delete button and this is what I got

Now we see our basic layout of the book is done now we need to add some text and change the colour to make it look like a book.

Step 5:

I have used the following colours. Keep the binding part of the book darker than the Coverpage. This gives a realistic look to the book.

Now let’s add some text on the book and we are done.

Step 6:

I have added some gradient, an image on the main cover and if you see clearly I have added a scan line effect (click on the link to see the scanline tutorial) on the pages. That’s all and we are done. This is what I got.

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This requires Photoshop 7. Open a new document, 400 x 400, with a white background, default settings.

Go to the Channels tab in the Layers window and create a new channel. It should be named a default Alpha 1 and it should have a black background.

Select the rounded rectangle option from the Rectangle Tool bar. If you don’t know how to do this, simply click and hold your mouse down on the button long enough until a small menu pops out.

Apply these settings.

Go to Menu > Filter > Blur > Gaussian Blur, and select it, setting it at 10 pixels.

Then, repeat at 5 pixels, then at 3, then at 1 two times. You should get something like this.

Next, go back to your layers tab, and create a new layer (Ctrl-Shift-N) and apply a white background (if you have default colors, it should be Ctrl-Backspace). Afterwards, go to Menu > Filter > Renderings > Lighting Effects, and apply these settings. Make sure to choose Alpha 1 as your texture channel (remember our Gaussian Blurred channel we created?). How this works is that you set the lighting, and Photoshop chooses a “texture channel”. White in this case is “higher” than black. Photoshop renders your texture the way you position your lights, and because when you Gaussian Blurred your Alpha 1 Channel, it gradually changed from a black background to a blurred white rectangle, the render will have a flat background gradually rising to a higher rectangle (foreground).

After all of that, you should get this as your final result.

This is a simply way to do “base” images. It can also be used to create wires (simply Gaussian Blur the white wire outlay), and other shapes. Here’s one of my creations for a moderator signature for my forum. Notice that the “base” has a higher ridged edge part and a lower inside part with a polished metal overlay.