How to achieve this torn paper effect?

Question

Want this for an invoice. Is it a brush or custom shape?

Answer 1

There's many ways you could create a shape like that. Given how perfect and uniform it looks, I'm guessing it's a shape layer, or hand drawn using the pencil tool, then repeated.

Either way, it'd be easy to create with a shape layer, which has the added benefit of being scalable if you need to double the resolution of the artwork (for Retina support on the web, etc).

Answer 2

Your best bet is to draw it in Illustrator then move the path over to Photoshop (if you must).

Illustrator gives you three choices.

1. Draw each point yourself with the pen tool. As KMSTR noted, you'll want some kind of grid to follow so you don't have to position each point by measurements.
2. Draw the triangle then apply Effects > Distort & Transform > Transform to dupe it with a horizontal move and copy as many times as needed. Then you'll use the Pathfinder panel to merge the triangles with a rectangle. It's easier than it sounds.
3. Create a custom border that has straight vertical sides and the triangle bottom edge. You'll find plenty of info here and around the web on custom border styles for Illustrator.

Answer 3

Basically i can come up with three legit ways:

1. You could use square brush, come with photoshop, rotate it 45 degrees and space it according to its size so all their edges touch up..some trial and error. This how i do it.
2. Then if you wanted it to be vector, then just create selection from the layer and make it into a path then shape. For to do this start with big brush size.
3. Another way to do it is show grid> Make a square> Duplicate it> Move it x grid boxes away and to farthest you want it to be> Count x boxes> Subtract 2 from the #> Select 1st box> Hold alt to duplicate and duplicate x-2 times by pressing right arrow key > Select all & Distribute equally> merge shapes.

Answer 4

This is so simple...i'll Show you how. I made a video right now here is the link ask anything you want to know... I didnt think it through when i was making this video but you can imagine i'd be more careful while doing it for real.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsyZM_WAOBw