TUT FRAME Elassal 008

  

PI Version: X3 Level: Intermediate Featured tools: Selection Tool, Transform Tool Additional filters: Birgit's Chaos (Black'n White) and Bordermania Additional files: Picture. I used one of my private photos, I'm sure you'll  find a nice one inside your collection too. (Width: 400 Pixels and Height: 263 Pixels.) Additional material: here (I've made this corners by myself, so please don't sell or claim them as yours.) Tutorial: Copyright © Said Elassal   DESCRIPTION: This tutorial shows you how you can make a beautiful frame for your artworks, et. cetera ... by using PI and different handy filters. Remember to save often! 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!)     Open the picture you want to use. Go to Adjust/Expand Canvas/Expand sides equally 1 pixel, Expand: White, and select the border. Edit/Fill/Image and fill the border with the goldfill you've downloaded with the zip file - a_jb-goldstrip.jpg. Deselect. Expand sides equally 1 pixel, Expand: Black. Now we will make another golden frame. Use the same goldfill as before. Expand sides equally 5 pixels, Expand color: Black. Expand sides equally 15 pixels, Expand color: White, and select the border.  Effect/Birgit Chaos/Black'n White: 100/100/100/255. Deselect the border. We are going to make several more frames like the first 3 frames (also the same combination 1-2-1), so next time I'm only referring to the frames 1-2-1. Just repeat the steps we've done right now.    Expand sides equally 5 pixels, Expand color: Black. Merge All. Right click/All, right click/Border, set the Pixels of the border to 25 (white hand), and the Direction to Inward (red arrow). Keep the border selected.   Go to Bordermania/Frame #2 and use these settings: 25/25/122/108 + Notch Corners. Deselect. Add frames 1-2-1. Expand sides equally 25 pixels, Expand color: Black. Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2 and use these settings: 25/25/110/140 + Notch Corners. Deselect. Add frames 1-2-1.     Expand: 40 Black. Select the black border and go to Effect/Material Effect/Texture Filter and choose Animal Hide (red arrow). Use these settings (1): 15/100/64/59/69/6 Color (white hand): 85/85/85 Direction: 61 Keep the border selected. Effect/Bordermania/Frame #2 and use these settings: 40/40/39/67 + Notch Corners. Deselect. Add one border - 1 pixel - in gold and deselect. Merge All. If you want to add some corners/decorations to your finished frame, I'll show you with the next steps how you can do that very easy.     Open the corner you've downloaded (1), Copy (Ctrl+C) and Paste (Ctrl+V) into your picture. Right click the corner/Align (red arrow)/Bottom. Right click/Duplicate and Flip Horizontally with the Rotate & Flip command (white arrow). Right click/Align/ Left. Repeat the steps Duplicate - Flip - Align until you've placed all corners into their right positions. Of course - change horizontally with vertically and make use of the Align/Bottom command. Merge All and Save As.     That's it! A beautiful, special frame for a wonderful artwork ... done with PI and different filters. HAVE FUN!!!   Download the filter of the site If you need any help with this tutorial - or want to make suggestions to improve it - please email me!