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For this tutorial you will need: |
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| 1. Select graphic, control-D to duplicate, close original. Resize if too large, sharpen once if you resize. Open gradient, duplicate, close original, Edit>Copy, minimize. |
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Format>Expand canvas, Expand sides equally checked, 5 pixels, white select with magic wand  , go to Edit>Fill, click on the Image
tab, Clipboard, Fit the Image, Merge Always, Transparency 0, OK.
Keep selected.
2b. Right click > convert to object, right click convert object from text/image to path. go to the Easy Palette, button gallery, any shape, right-click on A23, click on Variations and pick the upper right thumbnail. Click ok, deselect object. |
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It should now look like this.
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3 Format>Expand
canvas. Expand sides equally checked, 10 pixels, white, select with magic wand . Fill with
the gradient, deselect. |
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| 4 Repeat step 2 |
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5. Format>Expand canvas 25
pixels, Expand sides equally checked, select w magic wand
, fill with gradient
as above. Go to effects>VM Toolbox>Dynamic Diffusion both H & V at 153, repeat twice more for a total of 3X. Go to Effect>Material Effect>Wind, pick
thumbnail 2. OK and Deselect. |
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| 6. Repeat step 2 |
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| 7. Repeat step 5 |
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| 8. Repeat step 2 |
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| 9. Repeat step 3 |
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11. Using the rectangular
selection tool
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framed, go to Selection>Invert. Sharpen>upper left thumbnail. |
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11. If you would like
to use corners, browse to your corners (you can use .tub or .psd
files, but not .psp files), open the one you like,
copy, activate your graphic, paste as object, position to
your liking in top left corner, resize and sharpen if you like,
once it is to your satisfaction, right click and duplicate, go
to the Transform tool
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rotate and flip horizontally, and place it in the upper right
corner. Duplicate, transform tool
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rotate and flip vertically, place in lower right corner.
Duplicate, transform tool
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rotate and flip horizontally and place in lower left. You can go
to each layer in the layer manager, highlight the layer for each
corner and sharpen each one if needed or desired. Right click,
merge all, resize if necessary, make sure you sharpen if you do,
add a watermark if you want to, merge all again and save as jpg. |
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| If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day! | |
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