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| DESCRIPTION:
This
tutorial shows how you can make a beautiful and very
special frame to
decorate your photos or artworks ... by using PI and different
filters.
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For this tutorial 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 2 Color (=Background color), or 2
Black (=Foreground color).
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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New
Image: 270x373 Pixels, Color: 82/75/78 (darker shade of your
Background Color).
For our borders we'll use two different colors - I've set the Background color to
145/135/139 (white
hand), and the Foreground color to Black (red arrow).
2 Black + 2 Color + 2 Black
Adjust/Expand
Canvas/Expand sides equally: 10 Color (145/135/139).
Right click/All,
right click/Border: Border width: 10 (white arrow), Direction: Inward, Shape: Box.
Click OK and keep the border selected. |
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Effect/Graphic
Plus/Cross Shadow and use these settings:
50/50/50/50/50/50/80/128.
Keep the border selected.
Go to Effect/Cybia/ScreenWorks/Close Knit (red arrow).
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Go to Effect/Filters Unlimited 2.0/Buttons & Frames/3D Glass Frame 2
and use these settings: 15/128.
Click Apply and deselect the border.
2 Black + 2 Color + 2 Black |
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Expand: 20 Color, select the border and go to Effect/ Graphic Plus/Cross Shadow and use the same settings
as we used before.
Keep the border selected and go to Effect/VM Natural (red
arrow)/Splash! (white arrow) and use these settings (1): 128/128/255/17/22.
Click Apply and keep the border selected. |
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Go to Effect/Almathera/A Halo and use these settings:
Black (red arrow)
thickness: 15
transparency: 55.
Click OK and deselect the border.
2 Black + 2 Color + 2 Black
Expand:
40 Color, select the border and go to Effect/ Graphic Plus/Cross Shadow and use the same settings
as we used before.
Keep the border selected.
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Go
to Effect/Filters Unlimited 2.0/ Distortion Filters (red
arrow)/Whirl (white arrow) and use the default settings (1):
Whirl: 32.
Click Apply and deselect the border.
2 Black + 2 Color + 2 Black
Expand: 10 Color, select the border and go to Effect/ Graphic Plus/Cross Shadow and use the same settings
as we used before.
Keep the border selected.
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Effect/Cybia/ScreenWorks/Close
Knit.
Click OK and keep the border selected.
Go to Effect/Filters Unlimited 2.0/Buttons & Frames (red
arrow)/3D Glass Frame 2 (white arrow) and use these settings
(1): 15/128.
Click Apply and deselect the border.
2 Black + 2 Color + 2 Black
Now you add the tube to the picture, give it a shadow, add some
background pattern if you wish and your frame is finished. (If we
had used a picture in the middle, the effect of the Whirl filter
from FU would have looked different. But since I wanted to
have this kind of effect, I added the tube picture after finishing
the frame.)
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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