Old newspaper...paper ;)

Hey, I'll post this here, 'coz I really don't know if its a newbie question or a more advanced one...

I want to do, without scanning, something that could be found as a ripped out newspaper piece. Now the rip and the text I get, but in gods name, I don't seem to be able to do the paper itself so it looks "real", newspaper-like...anybody got any suggestion ?

Patric.

Do you want a brown crumpled old paper? or a clean sheet?

ermm might try some subtle halftone effects and maybe a fine cloth fabric used as a basis of a subtle texture. If you want it crumpled then I suppose displacement maps.

Not a brownish one...Not an old piece of paper, that I can do, but imagen a scanned add from a relatively fresch newspaper...that is what I'm after...Perhaps a slight crumble to it, but not neccesary...It's the look of the "scanned" sort I'm in search of. But I would like to acchieve that with out acctually scanning something of course, it should not be easy ;)

I'd scan, even though you said you don't want to.

Go to a print shop and buy a sheet of clean newsprint. Every print shop worth their salt will have some, and it's cheap.

Why re-invent the wheel?

Why re-invent the wheel?

Well, b'cause I wanna learn more, and learn to do things, that might be easier to do in one way, on my own. But on this one I'm stuck, and asked for help and opinions and thought that if I needed help, where should I go to get it if not Teamps, where the pro's are ;)
* somewhat embarresed due to the buttlickin' *

I value your say on this matter, Utopian, as I do in every other matter. But here...Well, that is the solution I don't want this time...

And by a "coincident" i came across this... wich works pretty good, but now i would like to make that paper a bit crumbled up, that is "small crumbles"...get to go work on that ;)

Patric.