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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Open
the picture you want to use.
Go
to Adjust/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally 2 pixels,
Expand: White, and select the border.
Go to Edit/Fill/ Gradient (1)/Magic Gradient
(2) and find
Mode 4 (white arrow).
Click the Edit button (red arrow)
and choose palette 008. Click OK twice.
Deselect the
border.
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Right
Click the Foreground color (red arrow)/Eyedropper and choose a
color from your picture.
Expand sides equally 5 pixels,
Expand color: Foreground color (44/108/64), and select the
border.
Effect/Noise/Add Noise/Options, choose Varied (1) and set the
Variance to 50 (white arrow).
Deselect (click inside the picture).
Now we will make another golden frame with the Edit/
Fill/Gradient/Magic Gradient command. Use the same settings as we
did for the first frame.
Deselect the border.
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We are going to make some more frames like the first one (same
steps - Expand, Selection, Edit/Fill/Gradient/Magic Gradient with the
same golden color and pattern), so next time I'm only referring
to the frame 1. Just repeat the steps we've done right now for
our first frame.
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Expand sides equally 9 pixels,
Expand color: White. Select the border and go to Edit/Fill/Gradient (1) and choose
the Magic Gradient (2). Click the Edit button (3) and choose the palette 102.
Right click on the black squares (red arrows) and change the
color to your Foreground color (44/108/64). Right Click the
white squares and change the color to a matching color (214/253/226). Click Add, and your palette will be saved to
the Palette Ramp Editor.
Click OK, and choose Mode 14 (4) in the next
window.
Click OK twice.
Deselect the
border.
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Expand sides equally 35 pixels,
Expand color: Foreground color (44/108/64). Select the border and go to
Effect/ Distort/Creative Warp. First of all click the button Undo
(1). Then choose different Pattern templates (2) after each other
(I used these):
17 + 12 + 5 + 12. (Here you have to try different combi- nations -
the effect of the Pattern templates depends on the picture you
use.)
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Effect/Simple/Diamonds
and keep the border selected.
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Go
to Web/Button Designer/Any Shape. Set the Light angle under
Basic (white hand) to 135,
the Light elevation to 43 (1), Bevel size (red arrow) to 7 and Bevel
smoothness (white arrow) to 7.
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Choose Bevel (red
arrow) and pick the last Bevel type (white arrow).
Click OK and keep the border selected.
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Right click the
border and choose Shadow. Set the color to black and use the
fifth one (red arrow). Use these settings:
Transparency: 50
Shadow size: 98
Soft edge: 10
Click OK and deselect. Add
one more time a frame 1.
Merge All and Save As. |
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That's it! A beautiful, special
frame for a beautiful fairy.
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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