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PI
Version:
X3
Level:
Intermediate
Featured tools: Selection Tool
Additional filters: Bordermania, Almathera
and Filters Unlimited 2.0.
Additional files: Picture. I made a picture with a tube
from Billy, which you can find on the
PSP
Tube Depot
homepage. Just remember to read the TOU for every
artist.
Additional material: None
PI
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.
The tutorial was originally written for PSP by Lisette and Karin, and I got
their permission to rewrite the tutorial for PhotoImpact. You'll find the original tutorial
"Les Modern" here
and don't forget - have a look at their homepage L&K's
Wonder Site. You'll find a lot of interesting things there - PSP tutorials
(several languages), filters, masks, textures, brushes, + +
+. It's really worth a visit :))
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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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New Image: Canvas color:
choose a color from your picture - I used the color 255/144/74, and Size: 300x300 Pixels.
Go to Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2 and use these settings: 7/7/47/152.
Do not tick the box for the Bevel (red arrow) and not the one
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Adjust/Expand
Canvas/Expand sides equally: 25 Color (the same color you've chosen
for your New Image - 255/144/74.
Right click/All,
right click/Border: Border width: 25 (white hand), Direction:
Inward (red
arrow), Shape: Box.
Click OK and keep the border selected. |
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Effect/Almathera/A Halo and use these settings:
Black (red arrow)
thickness: 23
transparency: 27.
Click OK and keep the border selected. |
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Go to
Effect/Filters Unlimited/Special Effects 1 (red arrow)/Blurred Mesh (white arrow).
Use these setting (1):
Density: 44
Blur amount: 10.
Your screenshot might look different, since I'm using Filters
Unlimited 2 - but the settings are the same anyway.
Click Apply and deselect the border.
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Expand:
10 Color (the color you've chosen for your New Image - here
255/144/74), and select the border.
Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2 and use the same settings as the
first time:
7/7/47/152 -
but this time tick the box for the Bevel (red arrow).
Merge All.
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Choose
the Selection Tool (red arrow)/Rectangle (white hand) and select the middle
of your frame, as you can see on the screenshot.
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Open
the picture (1) you want to use. Resize the picture if
necessary. (The best size would be the same as the one we
started this tutorial with - 300x300 Pixels.)
Copy (Ctrl+C) your picture
(1), activate the main
picture (2) and go to Edit/Paste/Into Selection (red arrow) and paste the
picture nice placed into the selection.
Merge All.
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it! An easy 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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Copyright © inkl-Designs. All
rights reserved.
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