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    Corkboard MySpace Layout
What is "Corkboard"? Its a place where you and your friends can post photos and notes to one another in a shared spot. MySpace profile for Corkboard Photography with pictures, videos, personal blog, interests, information about me and more.
   


  Start by opening a 500x259 px file. Select the Marquee Tool (press M, ), make a new layer and fill it with: #d7b78b
   
  Now add some Noise (Filter > Noise > Add Noise):
   

and you`ll have:

  Now we need a border of 6px:
    There a several ways to do it. One of them is to take the Pencil Tool () with a diamenter of 6 px and Hardness of 0% and
draw a border around the corkboard using this color: #8b4f13.

And this is your corkboard:

  Let`s add a photography to it. Using Marquee Tool (Press M, ) make a selection:
    and fill it with white. Then apply Drop Shadow using these settings:



Select a photography and using Edit > Transform > Scale or Ctrl+T shring the image to fit in
your selection. Use for eg. Georgia font, Bold, size: 15px and write a text on it.



You can also add some scotch tape to hold your photo more realistic, select Lasso Tool (press L, ) :

and fill it with: #ffcc00 then set the transparency to: 40%



Photoshop Tip: Use Burning Tool () to make the tape more realistic. Use these settings:



Make sure you are on the 'scotch layer' and holding ALT key you`ll slide the tool over the tape twice:



Having this example you can duplicate the posting and write anything you like on it
even to change the shape of the tape and stick it in a different position.

the result will be: