Ellie's Treasures-PhotoImpact tutorials-Fairy Frame


Graphic is by Renee Biertempfel, for more of her art visit here
For this tutorial you will need: For this tutorial you will need: ULead PhotoImpact - available for purchase here Filters and materials needed Visual Manipulation (VM) Experimental filters - Guess What - click here Cybia Filters - Screenworks - Dot Screen - available free here Andrews Filter Gallery 4 - Too Many Drinks - available free here (Andrew's Filters are at the bottom of that page, below the Filter Factory galleries) Eye Candy 3.1 - click here Corners, click here for list of sites that offer corners for upload My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here. I am assuming you know the basics of PhotoImpact and where the tools can be located.
Instructions	Screenshots
1. 1.Open your graphic, resize it to no larger than 350 on it's largest side. If you resize, go to Photo>Focus and go up one level, pick the thumbnail top right.
2. Pick a light color from your graphic for background color. I used #CED6BA (a pale sage) for my bg color.
3. Go to Effects>Eye Candy 3.1>Cutout with these settings Direction 315, Distance 0, Blur 15, Opacity 100, color black.
4. Go to Adjust>Expand Canvas (referred to by me for the rest of the tutorial as add border) 2 pixels, check expand sides equally. For this step throughout the tutorial pick any color that will contrast with your picture. Select with magic wand set at similarity 0, select by line (to find the magic wand, click on the arrow by the standard selection tool, it's in that submenu) and go to Edit>Fill>Gradient. Click on diagonal style, click on color box for multiple colors to open the Palette Ramp Editor. Select a gradient to go with your graphic or you can use gold fill or you can make the gradient from 2 colors in your graphic. I used Multiple Colors>Palette 081 for the gradient.
5. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic. Add border 2 pixels, select with magic wand and fill w gradient you picked. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic.
6. Add border, 10 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Select none. It should look like this now.
7. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic Add border, 10 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Leave selected.
8.Go to effects>Andrew's Filters 4>Too many drinks and you can use the default settings: 10-11-9-72 (default setting). Or if this doesn't show up too well on your gradient, play with the red, green and blue sliders till you see a mix of colors that will go well with your graphic. Leave the Divider setting at 72. (I used the settings 10-9-15-72). Apply. Select none.
9. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic. Add border, 20 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Leave selected.
10. Go to Effects>Screenworks>Dot Screen. Leave selected. Go to effects>Andrew's Filters 4>Too many drinks and use the settings you chose before. Apply. Go to Easy Palette>Button Gallery>double click on A19. Deselect.
11. Go to Easy Palette>Button Gallery>double click on A19. Deselect.
12. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic. Add border 2 pixels, select with magic wand and fill w gradient you picked. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic. Add border, 30 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Leave selected.
13. Go to Effects>VM Experimental>Guess What and use these settings: 243-136-0-83-0. If there's too much white in the gradient it will look grey. You can also fill this selection with a medium color from your graphic. I used color #5AEA94, an apple green. It will turn darker after the next effect. Leave selected.
14. Go to Easy Palette>Button Gallery>double click on A30. Deselect.
It should look like this now.
15. Add corners of choice: Hint when adding corners, add one and focus (Photo>Focus)/resize (with the transform tool ) till you like it. When done, right click and duplicate, click on transform tool, flip horizontal, put in approximate position, duplicate, flip vertical, move to position, duplicate, flip horizontal. Now click and select the two top ones, right click, align>top, do the bottom two, then do the left two and the right two. They will all align perfectly. Another hint: when I come across tubes of corners that are flat-2 dimensional and I want some dimension, I just open them up in PI, select the corner and go to my Easy Palette>Button Gallery and double click on the button thumbnails till I find a style I like for the corner.
16. Right click and merge all. You're finished. Watermark and save as jpg.
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