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Welcome To NewFreeTemplates.com Photoshop Tutorials Area - Wood effect frame
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Adding a frame to your image could really help to finish
it off. This particular image was taken using a Nikon Coolpix
950. |
 Diagram 1
| With your chosen image open in Photoshop we first need
to increase the canvas size.(diagram1)Choose Image > Canvas
size and from the drop down menu find the percent setting and
increase both the width and height by approximately 5%. Make sure that the
centre of the box is clicked as this will increase the frame around your
image evenly. You may need to experiment with size until you have a frame
that suits your image. |
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| TIP For Photoshop
5.5 users you can also use the cropping tool.(diagram2) Select
the cropping tool from your tool box (short cut C on your keyboard)
and drag it over your image; now pull your handles out to the size you
require then click 'crop'. The border will then appear around your
image. |
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| Using the Magic Wand tool we click on to the border,
(diagram 2). This will put the marching ants around the frame in two rows.
Calling up the layer palette (short cut F7) we Create a New Layer
by clicking on the icon in the Layers Pallet (diagram 3) and the
marching ants also appear on our new empty layer. |
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| Working on our new layer we choose a colour for our
frame by double clicking on the foreground colour on our tool palette.
Select the colour that you wish to use for your frame from the Colour
Picker .(diagram 4) Call up the Fill tool or Bucket from
the tool palette (short cut K on the keyboard) and fill the area between
the marching ants on our new layer. We can now deselect this area using
Select > Deselect or hit Ctrl D on our
keyboard. |
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| To achieve a wood grain effect we first add Noise
found under the Filter >Noise > Add Noise. Try a value of
around 20 and click the Gaussian box.(diagram 5) To make our frame look
realistic we need to add joints to the corners. From our tool palette
select the Polygon Lasso (diagram 6) and draw it around the top of
our frame, and diagonally over the corners (diagram 7). We repeat this to
the bottom of the frame holding down the Shift key which will allow us to
add to this selection. A 'plus sign' will appear alongside the cross of
the lasso . Once we have done this we add 'Motion blur' Filter
> Blur > Motion Blur - we set the angle to 0 and distance to
around 15 this will now give you a wood grain effect.(diagram 7) We repeat
the selection to both sides of our frame but when we add the Motion Blur
we select an angle of -90 . |
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| Under the Layers tab select Layer > Effect >
Bevel and Emboss and from the drop down menu under 'style' select
Inner Bevel. Set the depth to approximately 20. This will now give
a 'frame' effect around our image. Click Here |
| All that's left to do now is to flatten and save and
your frame is complete!. Try experimenting with different colours and
settings under the bevel and emboss menu. A wide variety of frames can be
made this way. |
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