The page curl is commonly used in creating the distressed and collage looks. This simple walkthrough can be applied to any photo to add an extra bit of detail.
In this Adobe Photoshop Video tutorial you will see how to make a stripe of pictures, like when you go into a photo stand and get some pictures taken, then you go out, and voila, a stripe of photos are printed out of the machine.
This simple effect in Photoshop effectively increases the luminosity range of an ordinary photograph, giving a wide spectrum of tones and contrast. The effect was originally discovered whilst I was trying to replicate the style of HDR photography in Adobe Photoshop. Whilst the outcome doesn’t quite compare to HDR, the resulting effect is still pretty cool!