Making a Wanted Poster

Preparing the paper is most of this technique

1. File > New > Blank
2. 81/2 11 at 240 ppi if you want to make a print or 96ppi otherwise
3. Alt+click new Layer and name clouds 1
4. Set the Foreground color -233, 191, 131
5. Set the Background color -164, 125, 87
6. Filter > Render > clouds
7. Ctrl+F to apply filter again - do until you get a nice look
8. Ctrl+J to copy to a new layer
9. ctrl + F to apply the clouds filter again
10. Change layer Blend Mode to Luninosity
11. Add a Patterns Adjustment Layer and choose the Clouds Patterns, 2nd row right, 900 %
12. Change to Blend mode to Soft Light at 50% opacity.
13. Select the 3 layers using the shift ken and Ctrl+E to merge
14. Add Levels adjustment to Background – OK without an adjustment
15. Rectangle Marquee to select an area leaving a narrow border
16. Shift+Ctrl+I to inverse the selection
17. Choose the Default colors
18. Adjustment layer active, Alt+Backspace to fill selection with black
19. Deselect – Ctrl+D
20. Group the Adjustment Layer with the Clouds 1 layer by pressing the Alt and click on line between layers
21. Make sure mask is targeted and Filter – Distort > Glass,Distort 10,Smoothness – 11, Frosted for texture,Scale – 170 %
22. Ctrl+Click on mask to load as a selection
23. Lasso tool with Subtract from Selection, draw some jagged rips in the border
24. Ctrl+shift+I to inverse the selection
25. Alt + Backspace to fill the selection with black
26. Deselect
27. Dupe the paper layer using Ctrl+J, and name Edge
28. Add to the Clipping group, Alt+click on line between layers
29. Ctrl + click on Layer Mask icon to load as a selection
30. Select > Modify > Contract about 25 pixels
31. Target Edge layer and press Backspace to erase the center portion or selected area
32. Change blend mode to Multiply
33. Filter > Blurr > Gaussian Blur about 15-18
    

Paper is finished.

1. Open the image you want on your poster and drag into the paper
2. Resize to fit
3. Ctrl-Shift-U to desaturate
4. Change Blend Mode to suite. I used Color Burn
5. Reduce layers Opacity to suite
6. Add some noise using - Filter Add Noise > Check Monochromatic
7. Add your text using the Type tool. I used Font Rosewood Std, 72 for WANTED and then Free Transform to size the text.