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PI
Version:
X3
Level: Intermediate
Featured tools:
Magic Wand Tool
Additional filters: Greg's
Factory Output Vol.II, and Toadies
Additional files:
Picture (Width: 280 Pixels and Height: 400 Pixels.).
I made a picture with a tube from Jecajo,
which can be found on the
PSP
Tube Depot homepage. Just remember to read the
TOU for every artist.
Additional
material: None
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement |
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DESCRIPTION: This
tutorial shows how you can make a beautiful and special frame to
decorate your photos or artworks ... by using PI and some 3rd
party filter.
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For this tutorial we are using 2 main colors - the Foreground
color and the Background color -, so
next time, for making it more easy, I'm only referring to 1
Light (Foreground color) or
1 Dark (Background color). If not mentioned otherwise, always expand the sides
equally with the pixels mentioned in front of the
color.
To make it more easy to select a border, right click/All,
right click/Border and set the Pixels of the border for the
Border width, Direction: Inward, Shape: Box.
You can always use the Magic Wand Tool, but this way it's more
easy if you use similar colors for the background and the
border. (On the assumption that all sides have been expanded
equally!)
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Set
your Background and Foreground color to fit your picture -
here I used 216/184/153 (red arrow) for the foreground color,
and 193/115/68 (white arrow) for the Background color.
Adjust/Expand
Canvas/Expand sides equally: 1 Light (Foreground color).
Right click/All,
right click/Border: Border width: 1 (1), Direction:
Inward (white hand), Shape: Box and
Anti-aliasing.
Click OK.
Right click/Convert to Object.
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Right click/Shadow, and use
these settings:
Color: Black (white hand)
Altern.: 5. (red arrow)
Transparency: 0
Shadow size: 99
Soft edge: 7.
Click OK and Merge All. |
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Expand:
3 Dark (Background color) and select the border. Effect/Greg's
Factory Output Vol.II (red arrow)/Pool Shadow (white arrow)
and use the default settings (1):
50/50/50/50/50/50/128/128.
Your screenshot might look different, since I'm using Filters
Unlimited 2 - but the settings are the same anyway.
Click Apply and Merge All.
Expand: 1 Light. |
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Expand: Color: Dark (white hand), unmark
the box "Expand sides equally" (red arrow), and
expand:
Top: 0/Left: 0/Right: 30/Bottom: 40.
Click OK.
Right click/All,
right click/Border: Border width: 1, Direction:
Inward, Shape: Box and
Anti-aliasing.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and use your Foreground color ... in my
case - 216/184/153.
Right click/Convert to Object, right click/Shadow - with these
settings:
Black + 5.altern. + 0/99/5.
Merge All.
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Expand:
with a dark shade of your Background color ... I used -
123/71/40 (white hand). Unmark
the box "Expand sides equally" (red arrow), and
expand:
Top: 40/Left: 30/Right: 0/Bottom: 0.
Click OK. |
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Right click/All,
right click/Border: Border width: 1, Direction:
Inward, Shape: Box and
Anti-aliasing.
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and use your Foreground color ... in my
case - 216/184/153.
Right click/Convert to Object, right click/Shadow - with these
settings:
Color:
Black (white hand)
Altern.: 5.(red arrow)
Transparency: 0
Shadow size: 99
Soft edge: 5.
Click OK and Merge All.
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Expand
all sides equally:
50 Dark (Background Color) and select the border. Effect/Toadies (red
arrow)/What Are You? (white arrow) and use this setting:
Overdose: 35.
Click Apply and Merge All.
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Choose the Selection Tool/Magic Wand (red arrow), with a Similarity of
approx. 20 (white arrow), and select the outermost border (1), as
you can see on screenshot.
Right click/Invert, right click/Convert to Object, and drag the new object on your free
working space (2).
Now you have two pictures in front of you. You can close
picture 1 - we shall do the last finishing on picture
2.
Merge All.
Expand: 30 Dark (Background color).
Expand: 1 Light (Foreground color).
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That's
it! A beautiful frame for any kind of photo or artwork ...
done with PI and some 3rd party filter.
HAVE FUN!!!
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If you need any help with
this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it -
please email
me!
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Copyright © inkl-Designs. All
rights reserved.
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