help!
Apr 19, 2012 11:41 AM
Tags:I am trying to create a photo in elements 7. It is one single photo merged into three frames and the frames are all crooked and look transparent i guess... please help got the pic from http://www.ashedesign.com/
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- Open picture file
- Open a blank layer above the background layer
Access the rectangular marquee tool and drag out a suitably sized rectangle
Go to Edit>stroke (outline) selection, position:inside, black color
Access the Effects palette, select drop shadow - low - apply
- Go to Select>deselect
- On the layer with the stroke, double click the fx in the layers panel to bring up the Style settings dialog. Adjust the drop shadow and add an inner glow. Use the sliders.
- Duplicate this layer twice
- Access the move tool, and move the frames on the last 2 layers so that they are in the desired position. Note the little arrow to rotate the layers to get them off center as you hover adjacent to the frame
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Try this:
- Open your picture file
Duplicate the background layer, work on the background copy layer. Shut off visibility of the background layer by clicking on its eye icon
- Open a levels adjustment layer and use the sliders to enhance the picture (esp. left slider)
- Merge down. leaving you with background and background copy layers
Access one of the selection tools. I used the magnetic lasso tool, and selected around the boxes and the boy's feet
- Go to Layer>new>layer via copy to put the selection on its own layer
- Open a blank layer below this layer and fill with 50% gray (Edit>fill layer>50%gray), and drag a gradient on this layer while holding down the shift key, from below up. You can use any background to suit. I used the soft gradient for demonstration.
- Go back to the layer created in step #6, and sharpen slightly (Enhance>unsharp mask, 96, 0.7,1)
- Highlight the top layer, and place a blank layer above this, then press CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+E to create a stamp visible layer
- Go to Select>all, then Edit>stroke to place a "frame" around the entire thing.
Please report back with your progress.
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I took a slightly different approach (as well as a slightly more interesting subject
).Here's the original:
- Add three new layers to hold the frames. Name them "box top", "box middle", and "box bottom".
- With the "box top" layer active, drag out a selection.
- Re-size and position the selection.
- Use Edit...Stroke (Outline) Selection. I used 5px white.
- Repeat steps 2-4 for the other frame layers. N.B.: When a line is on a diagonal, it will appear to be slightly wider than a horizontal or vertical line, so I used a 4px width for the stroke.
- Duplicate the background layer three times.
- Place a duplicate of the background beneath each frame layer.
- With one of the frame layers active, use the Magic Wand with "Contiguous" selected to select the interior of the frame.
- Use Select...Modify...Expand and expand the selection by half the number of pixels used for the frame width so the selection will be within the frame.
- Make the duplicate image below the frame active.
- Use Select...Inverse, then hit your Delete key to remove the areas of the image that are outside the frame.
- Repeat steps 8-11 for the other frame layers.
- Apply a layer style to the frame layers, if desired. I used a Simple Emboss.
- To change the colours of the frame, add a Hue/Saturation adjustment layer to each frame layer, clipping it to the layer and using the "Colorize" option.
- Select each image layer and apply a drop shadow effect, if desired.
- Add a new layer at the bottom of the stack and place a background of your choice on it, modifying it to suit.
The final image:
The layers look like this:
That gives the most flexibility for modifying the effects, etc.
Ken
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Jami,
I assume you are referring to Ken's last method. I had to switch steps 2 and 3 to get it to work:
2. Use Edit...Stroke (Outline) Selection. I used 5px white.
3. Re-size and position the selection.
Also, if you intend to apply a layer style to the frame it doesn't matter what color you use when you do the stroke. Default black or white will work as well. The layer style overrides the color.
Another thing I found when playing around with the instructions... If you simply want a plain frame without a layer style, if you do a large stroke with the Outside or Center option the corners of the frame will be rounded or chopped off depending on the stroke size. If you want square corners do the stroke Inside. In this case you will want to make the initial selection larger to account for the inside frame.
In the top frame I did the stroke Outside; the corners are chopped off. In the bottom frame I did the stroke Inside.
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