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- Creating the Frame
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- The hard work is done and now we
just have a few borders to add to complete the image.
- So here is what we do.
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- Image/Add Borders/Symmetric/4Pixels
- Choose a colour that is not in
your image.
- Select your border with the magic
Wand and flood fill with your dark colour.
- Selections/Invert
- Effects 3D Effects/Cutout with the
following settings:-
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- Vertical and Horizontal 2
- Opacity 60
- Blur 13
- Shadow Colour (The same colour you
used for the drop shadow on the image.)
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- Repeat with Vertical and
Horizontal set to Minus 2 and all else the same.
- Select None
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- Maximise your tube and seamless
tile at default.
- Add a new layer and flood fill
with your light colour.
- Move this layer to the bottom and
merge.
- Edit/Copy
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- Image/Add Borders/Symetric/15
Pixels.
- Select with your Magic Wand
- Edit/Paste into selection
- Effects/Plugins/Mehdi/Kaleidoscope.
- I used the following setting but
you can adjust until you find something you like.
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- Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel at
the following settings:-
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- Bevel 2
- Width 4
- Smoothness 100
- Depth 8
- Ambience 0
- Shininess 50
- Colour White
- Angle 315
- Intensity 28
- Elevation 48
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- Deselect.
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- Image/Add Borders/Symetric/4
Pixels in your dark colour.
- Image/Add Borders/20 Pixels/Symetric.
- Select the border with your magic
Wand
- Edit/Paste into selection.
- Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur/15
- Effects/Plugins/Greg's Factory
Output Volume 11/Pool Shadow at the following settings.
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- Deselect.
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- Image/Add Borders/4 Pixels/Symetric
in your dark colour.
- Image/Add Borders/15 Pixels/
Symetric.
- Select the Border with your Magic
Wand
- Edit/Paste into Selection
- Effects/Plugins/Mehdi
Filter/Kaleidoscope/Same settings as before
- Effects/3D Effects/Inner
Bevel/Same settings as before
- Deselect.
- Image/Add Borders/4 Pixels/Symetric/
In your dark colour.
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- Bring your corner tube into PSP
and Edit/Copy
- Edit/Paste as a new layer into
your image.
- Place in the top left corner of
your image and adjust the size if needed.
- Adjust/Hue and
Saturation/Colorize.
- You will have to play around here
until you get the colour you need depending on the colour of your image.
- As an example the settings I have
used are Hue 250 (that's on red) and saturation 81
- Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow at
the following settings.
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- The colour is the same as used
throughout.
- If you are happy with your corner
duplicate the layer
- Image/Mirror
- Duplicate
- Image/Flip
- Duplicate
- Image/Mirror
- Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten
- Image Resize to 550 width making
sure that Lock aspect Ratio is checked
- Sharpen if necessary.
- Save as a Jpeg with the
compression set at 25
- Leave the image open in your
workspace.
- Congratulations your frame is now
complete.
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- To Create the Sidebars
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- Selection Tool/Rectangle/Mode
Replace/Feather 0/Anti Alias Checked.
- Select from the top left corner of
the image to the edge of the decorative corner and drag to the bottom.
- Like this:-
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- Edit/Copy
- Edit/Paste as new image.
- Image/Resize/Lock Aspect Ration
Unchecked/Adjust the width and leave the length as it is.
- I have reduced mine to 65 pixels
wide. (The corners I have used are quite large so the selection is a
little wide for my sidebars. Yours may be OK. It's up to you
whether you resize or not)
- Effects/Plugins/Filters
Unlimited/Tile and Mirror/Mirror Horizontal.
- Save as a Jpeg with the
compression set at 25
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- To Create the Background
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- On your main image using
your selection tool with the settings as they were before draw a
selection around the top corner.
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- Edit/Copy
- Edit/Paste as new image.
- Effects/Image Effects/Seamless
Tile at default
- Layer/New Raster Layer.
- Flood fill with your light colour
- Lower the opacity of this layer
slightly. Mine is lowered to 94.
- Layers/Merge/Merge all flatten.
- Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance or
- Effects/Plugins/FM Tile
Tools/Blend Emboss at default.
- Repeat until you have the effect
you like.
- Save as a Jpeg with the
compression set at 25
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- Assemble all of your pieces in
Letter Creator
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- I hope you have enjoyed this
tutorial. I would love to see your results.
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