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.
Right Click on the Foreground color, choose Eyedropper and find a color from your
picture. For this example I picked a dark shade from one
of the pictures color 92/54/29 (white hand).
Go
to Adjust/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally 2 pixels,
Expand: White,
and select the border.
Edit/Fill/Image and fill the border with the goldfill you've
downloaded..
Deselect.
Expand sides equally
4 pixels,
Foreground color (red arrow).
Select the border. |
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Effect/Graphic
Plus (red arrow)/Cross Shadow (white arrow), and use the default
settings (1).
Your screenshot might look different, since I'm using Filters
Unlimited 2 - but the settings are the same anyway. Click
Apply.
Deselect the border.
Expand sides equally 2 pixels,
Expand: White, and select the border.
Edit/Fill/Image and fill the border with the goldfill you've
downloaded.
Deselect.
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We are going to make some more frames like the first one (same
steps - Expand with 2 pixels, Selection, Edit/Fill/Image and fill the border
with the goldfill you've downloaded.), 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 25 pixels,
Foreground color. Select the border
and go to Photo/Enhance/Diffuse Glow.
Use these settings:
Threshold: 12
Degree of glow: 13
Graininess: 1
Glow color: 245/233/224 (a light color matching your
Foreground color - red arrow)
Deselect.
Add a frame 1, and deselect.
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Expand sides equally 40 pixels,
Expand color: White. Select the border and go to Edit/Trace/Selection Marquee and
accept the standard settings. Change the Mode (1) from
Horizontal Deform to 2D Object and click the Material button
(red arrow). Under Color/Texture, click the File button (white
arrow) and find the file of your original picture.
Click OK and keep the border selected.
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Go
to Effect/Distort/Creative Warp and choose the Pattern templates 5
and 4 after each other.
Click first the
template 5 (white arrow), then template 4 (red arrow) and click OK.
Keep the border selected.
Go to Photo/Blur/Blur and choose the default setting: Fair.
Keep the border selected.
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Go
to Web/Button Designer/Any Shape. Use these settings for the
Basic:
Light angle: 135
Light elevation: 43
Bevel: 7
Bevel
smoothness: 7.
Choose Bevel (red
arrow) and pick the last Bevel type (white arrow).
Click OK, keep the border selected, and click 1x the minus in
the Quick Color Control Panel (white hand).
Keep the border selected, Right click/Shadow. Use the 5. one, color: black
with these settings: 50/99/10.
Deselect.
Add a frame 1, and deselect.
Go
to Format/Expand Canvas/ Expand sides equally 25 pixels,
Expand color: the same dark one we used before (92/54/29) and
deselect.
Add a frame 1, deselect and Merge All.
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That's it! A beautiful, special
frame for a wonderful artwork ... done with PI, one 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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