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| 1. 1.Open your graphic, resize it to no larger than 350 on it's largest side. If you resize, go to Filter>Sharpen. | |
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2. Pick a light color
from your graphic for background color. I used C6E3C1 (a pale
sage green) for my background color. |
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3. Click on the
gradient tool (under the paint bucket in the toolbar), and in
the gradient toolbar select a gradient that will look nice with the
graphic.
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4. Go to Effects>Eye
Candy 3.1>Cutout with these settings Direction 315, Distance 0,
Blur 15, Opacity 100, color black.
It should look like this now.
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5. Add border: Go to
Image>Resize>Canvas Size click the box Relative and add 2 width
and height equally (for this step throughout the tutorial pick
any color that will contrast with your picture - in Photoshop it
will use the background color, in PSE you can choose the color
in the canvas size window); select with magic wand
set at Tolerance 0, anti-aliased and contiguous checked. Leave
it selected. Click on the gradient tool and starting at the top
left, left click and drag to the bottom right. This will fill
the gradient into the selection.
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6. 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.
It should look like this now.
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7. Add border, 10
pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Select none.
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8.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. |
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9. 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 11-40-28-72. Apply. Select none.
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10. 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. |
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11. Go to Effects>Screenworks>Dot
Screen (if you don't see it listed uner Screenworks, look under
Cybia, programs treat it differently). Leave selected. Go to effects>Andrew's Filters 4>Too
many drinks and use the settings you chose before. Apply.
(For PS now go to Layer>New>Background from Layer, this will change the background to a layer). In PSE, go to Palette bin, Go Layer Styles>Bevels and left click on Simple Pillow Emboss. A window will come up asking if you want to make this a layer, say ok. You don't have to name the layer in the next box. Click ok. (In PS: Go to Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss; Smooth, Depth 50%, Direction Up, Size 5, Soften 0; the rest at default, click OK). Go to Layer>Flatten image. Deselect.
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It should look like
this now.
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14. 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 |
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| 15. Add border, 30 pixels, select w magic wand and either fill with gradient or a medium color from your graphic (if there's too much white in the gradient it will look grey after the next step). Leave selected. | |
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16. Go to Effects>VM
Experimental>Guess What and use these settings: 243-136-0-83-0.
Leave selected.
(For PS: now go to Layer>New>Background from Layer, this will change the background to a layer).
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17. In PSE: In Palette bin,
Go Layer Styles>Bevels and left click on Simple Pillow Emboss. A
window will come up asking if you want to make this a layer, say
ok. You don't have to name the layer in the next box. Click ok.
(In PS: Go to Layer>Layer Style>Bevel and Emboss; leave all at default levels - Smooth, Depth 100%, Direction Up, Size 5, Soften 0; the rest at default, click OK). Deselect. Go to Layer>Flatten image.
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It should look like
this now.
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18. Open corner of
choice. If you have tubed corners, you can open them in PSP and
save as psd file, they can then be used in any graphics program.
Open in PS/PSE, go to Select>All, Edit>Copy>go to your framed
graphic and go to Edit>Paste. To resize the corner, go to
Image>Resize>Scale (In PS it's Edit>Transform>Scale).
Drag on the handles to make smaller or bigger. Once you resize, go to Filters>Sharpen. Hint: when adding
corners, add one and sharpen/focus/resize till you like it. When
done, go to layer palette, click on that layer, right click and
duplicate, go to Image>Rotate>Layer 90 degree right (In PS it's
Edit>Transform>Flip Horizontal or Flip Vertical), move it into
place and it will snap into place when it gets right in the
corner. Repeat this step till all the corners are in place. (In
PS you may find that it won't snap into the corner but springs
back to the original location. I find it helps to move it almost
but not quite to the corner, let it go and then move it so it
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| 17. Go to Layer>Flatten Image. You're finished. Watermark and save as jpg. See below for one done in Photoshop. | |
| If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day! | |
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Here is the one I did in Photoshop, the one above was done in
Photoshop Elements |
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