For this tutorial, as for all of them, we are going to make a
lot of similar frames/borders, with the same
color/fill/pattern - using the same steps over again -, so
next time I'm only referring to 1 White or 2 Color
(=Foreground color) or 5 Gold (=GoldFillPattern). Just repeat
the steps I'm explaining for the first frame/border. (Always
expand sides equally, and 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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Open the picture, choose a
Foreground color (white hand) - 94/8/8 -, and go to Adjust/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally 2 pixels, Expand: White. Select the border
and go to Edit/Fill/Image (red
arrow) and find the texture - the GoldFillPattern - you want to use (white arrow).
Check the box Tile the
image (1). Click OK.
Selection/None.
1 Color + 1 White. |
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Expand:
5 Color, and select the border.
Go to Web/Button Designer/Any
Shape and use these settings:
Basic (white arrow):
Light angle: 315
Light elevation: 35
Bevel size: 3
Bevel smoothness: 0
Bevel (red arrow):
Choose the 2. one (red square).
Click OK and deselect.
1 White + 1 Color + 2 Gold. |
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Expand:
18 Color, and select the border. Go to Effect/Eye Candy
3/Swirl and use the default settings:
Whirlpool Spacing: 100
Smear Length: 15
Twist: 70
Streak Detail: 40
+ Warp and Smooth
Apply and keep the border selected. |
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Go
to Effect/Almathera/A Halo and use these settings:
White (red arrow)
thickness: 9
transparency: 78
Click OK and deselect.
2 Gold. |
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Expand:
23 Color, and select the border. Go to Photo/ Enhance/Diffuse Glow:
12/13/3 + Glow color (red arrow): 253/234/234.
Click OK and deselect.
2 Gold + 1 Color + 1 White.
Expand: 5 Color, and select the border. Go to
Web/Button Designer/Any Shape and use the same settings as
before:
Basic:
Light angle: 315
Light elevation: 35
Bevel size: 3
Bevel smoothness: 0
Bevel: Choose the 2. one.
Click OK and deselect.
1 White + 1 Color + 2 Gold.
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In case you need to freshen up your memory on how to save a mask
into the EP - you can take a look at one of my other
tutorials, where I explain a little bit more about how to use a
mask in PI. You'll find the tut here.
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Expand: 40 Color. Select the border, open your EP and find the
mask you've downloaded and saved into your EP. Apply the mask,
choose the Transform Tool (red arrow) and click the Selection
button (white arrow). Resize the mask the way you can see on
the screenshot.
Go to Edit/Fill/Image and fill the mask with the same
GoldFillPattern we used for the golden borders.
Selection/None und Merge All.
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Right
click/All, right click/Border: Border width: 40 (white hand),
Direction: Inward (red arrow), Shape: Box.
Go to Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2:
3/3/110/110 + Notch Corners.
Repeat the last step, Bordermania, with the same
settings.
Deselect.
2 Gold.
Merge All.
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That's it! A beautiful and very
special frame for any kind of photo ...
done with PI and different filters. 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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