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PI
Version:
X3
Level: Intermediate
Featured tools: Selection Tool, Transform Tool
Additional filters: Bordermania,
FunHouse, Greg's
Factory Output Vol.II, Richard
Rosenman and Almathera
Additional files:
Picture. I used one of my private photos, I'm sure
you'll find a nice one inside your collection too.
(Width: 276 Pixels and Height:
350 Pixels.)
Additional material: here
(the filter you need from FunHouse - Faceter - isn't
included in this latest versions, but I've included it
into the zip file)
Tutorial:
Copyright © Inge Klement |
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DESCRIPTION:
This
tutorial shows you how you can make a beautiful frame to
decorate your photos with ... by using PI and different filters.
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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 Color (=Foreground color) or 2
Acadie (= downloaded fill - "whitesatin.jpg") . 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 arrow) - 67/77/73. Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally 1 pixel, Expand:
Foreground color. Select the border and right click/Convert to Object, right click/Shadow and use the
5.one (red arrow) with these settings: 16/99/7.
Deselect.
Expand: 2 White, select the border and go to Edit/Fill/ Image, and
fill the border with the downloaded fill,.
Deselect.
2 Color + 1 Acadie + 2 Color + 2 Acadie. |
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Expand:
18 Color, select the border and go to Effect/Fills and
Textures/Texture Filter/Embossed and choose the Texture Image
(red arrow) with the name emboss004.bmp.
Use these settings (1):
100/30/6/49 + Direction: 45.
Click OK/Apply Current Frame Effect to Image (white arrow),
and keep the border selected. |
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Go
to Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2 and use these settings: 18/18/51/42 + Notch Corners.
Deselect.
2 Acadie + 2 Color + 1 Acadie + 1 Color + 1 Acadie.
Expand: 26 Color, select the border and go to Effect/ Greg's Factory Output Vol.II/Pool Shadow and use these
settings: 50/50/50/50/50/50/82/139.
Keep the border selected. |
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Go
to Effect/Richard Rosenman/Pixelate and use these settings (1):
Horizontal:3
Vertical: 3
Mix: 100
Outline: 12
Outline: Additive (red arrow).
Click OK and keep the border selected. |
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Go to Effect/Almathera/A Halo and use these settings:
Black (red arrow) + 25/31.
Deselect the border.
1 Acadie + 2 Color + 1 Acadie.
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Expand:
32 Color, and select the border. Go to Effect/ FunHouse/Faceter and use the default settings: 100/50/15/0/0/0/0/0.
Go to Selection/Select by Color Range, use the Eye- dropper (red arrow),
set the Similarity to 100 (white arrow) and select the white
stripes from our last border (see screenshot).
Go to Edit/Fill/Color and choose a darker shade of your
Foreground color. I used 33/37/36 for this frame. Go to
Selection/None - that removes the Selection from the stripes,
but the border should be still selected. To adjust the
Brightness, click 1x the - for the Brightness (white hand) and
go to Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2:
32/32/35/28 + Notch Corners.
Deselect.
2 Acadie, and Merge All.
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| That's it! A beautiful frame for any kind of photo
or artwork ...
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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