I was folding the corner of a page in the book I'm reading and thought, hey, that could be a nice visual trick! How do I do it in Pages?
Here is what I've come up wtih:
- Draw a triangle with the Draw Tool (three clicks plus fourth to close the shape). There is a ready made 'Right Triangle' shape, but I found it too fussy to rotate and resize it.
- Position the triangle over the page where you are going to fold the corner. Here it's a page from a note-pad. Use snap to grids (Alignment Guides) to fit it flush with the note-pad.
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- Pick colour of the background or simply choose white colour fill for the shape. This first triangle will hide the folded corner of the page.
- Next, duplicate (Command+D) the triangle. In Metrics Inspector flip the duplicate sideways, then flip vertically, position so that it points inside the note-pad.
- To give it the natural look of folded paper pick the colour of the page in the note-pad. In Graphic Inspector click on the colour well, then on the magnifying glass in the Colours viewer next to the colour well and then click on the page of the note-pad as close to the shape as possible.

- Select all three Shapes (objects) and under Arrange menu Group them so that you can move, resize and copy the finished page with folded corner within your Pages project.
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Settings for the corner shown |
The whole work takes about 10-15 minutes.
If you also use PhotoShop, have a look at this article which describes how to fold corners in a different way.
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Finished folded corner |
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Nice. Thanks for the tip
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