Adding Borders
This is lots of fun and you can make your own frames by just adding border on border and then adding some corners. I don't collect a lot of frames so adding borders I can get the exact look I am wanting whether it is fancy or complicated.
Start by opening a picture or an image that is finished. I picked a header that I did for a background. I went to my materials palette and chose two colors then clicked on my foreground material palette, gradients, and chose foreground-background. You can choose a plain color or pattern or anything you like. I chose two colors from my picture. A darker and a lighter.
Go to your top toolbar and choose Image-Add Borders. You will get a popup box for borders. Choose these settings.
If your piece is dark like mine choose white for the color. If you click on the color square it will bring up your colors palette. If your piece is light choose black. If there are varied hues of white and black in your piece choose red or yellow. You will be covering it up but you must choose a contrasting color so that none of your background is picked up when you do the next step.
Choose your selection tool, third tool down and click on the arrow. When you get the fly out choose your Magic Wand. Touch your magic wand to the border you have just put on. Make sure your picture is exactly how you want it because the add borders will merge all your layers.
These are your settings for the wand in the tool bar above your workspace.
Add-0 tolerance-contiguous checked-0 feather-anti-alias checked-outside
Now choose your paint can icon or fill tool and fill the area that is in a marquee with a left click. This will fill your border with whatever you have chosen in your foreground materials palette.
Go to the top of your tool bar after you have done this and choose Effects-3D-Inner bevel.
Use these settings.
Bevel 2
Width 15
Smoothness 5
Depth 4
Ambience 5
Shininess 40
Color white
Intensity 30
Elevation 50
<----If you click the eye you will see the change on your image. The dice is for getting random changes. You can make your border look any way you want.
Click ok.
Now if you want to define a border you can choose Effects-3D-drop shadow. Make it from 1 to 5 to start out in a color that will go with your picture but is dark enough to show a faint shadow. Low settings, like 50 for your opacity and 5 to 10 for your blur. Then choose Effects-3D-drop shadow and leave the settings the same except make the shadow a minus in the first two boxes so you will have a shadow on the other side as well. This is just something else you can do but you can skip this if you want.
Now choose selections-select none.
Choose Image again, add borders, again and this time make your border smaller like 5. Make it in a contrasting color again. Choose your magic wand again and touch your new border. You should just have a marquee around the new border.
Use the same fill color you used before from your materials palette and fill this border.
This time go to Effects-texture effects-blinds. These settings.
Width 4
Opacity 100
I chose black for my color
Check horizontal
Uncheck light from left top
Selections-select none. Go to Image-add borders again and make your border bigger, 8 or 10, or whatever you prefer. Just something that is larger. Make it in your contrasting color, get your wand and select your border again. Fill this border with the same gradient fill color. This time after I filled with my color I went to Image in my top tool bar-and chose mirror to put the gradient fill opposite to give it some balance in color.
Choose Effects-Art Media Effects-Brush Strokes. If this doesn't show much of a difference go to Effects-Texture Effects and use something in there, just play with it until you find something you like.
These are just three examples of choosing effects for your borders. You can be as simple or wild as you like.
When you get your border how you like them I want you to put corners on the frame you have made.
You can get some beautiful corners here at Karins Creations. They are zip files. Extract them to your My PSP files in a folder outside your PSP files. I created an embellishments folders for corners.
Find a corner you like and double click to bring it up in your workspace. Now you are going to want to make it the color of your borders so go to your top tool bar and choose Adjust-Hue and Saturation-Colorize. When you get the colorize box go to hue on the left and find the color closest to your border. Then go to the saturation box and choose the depth of color that looks best on your border. Click ok.
Right click on your corner image, copy and right click on your bordered image and paste-as a new layer. Above I had chosen a corner I didn't like so I went back and found another one.
You may have to risize your corner to make it look better by choosing Image -resize-smaller or larger, uncheck resize all layers. I usually resize by 75% up or down until I get it the size I want it.
Now go to your layers palette over at the right and right click on the layer with the corner and duplicate three more times.
Here is another one I did to show you the layers palette.
You will have your bordered layer and the original corner and the three duplicates. Your first one that is highlighted here is already in the top left position. Highlight the next layer up copy 1 and choose Image-Mirror. Click on copy 2 and choose Image-Mirror, Image-Flip.
Click on the last copy, copy 3 and choose Image-Flip. Now you should have a corner in each corner of your main image. Right click on copy three and merge down. Right click on copy 2 and merge down. Right click on copy and merge down. Now you should have two layers. Your merged main layer and the four corners above it.
Just for fun highlight your four corners image in your layers palette and Choose Effects in your top tool bar-3D-Inner Bevel using your same settings that you used before. Go back to Effects 3D and choose drop shadow putting a drop shadow on your corners to make them stand out. I used the same settings on drop shadow only raised the opacity to 100. Using the plus and minus again.
Right click on your corners layer in your layer palette and merge visible to merge all your layers.
Remember if you are doing a header that you want a specific size you will have to choose Image-resize to that specific image because adding borders adds size to your piece.
These are the two things I did.
This tut copyrighted by the owner. Any similarities to other tutorials is coincidental. It would be nice if you would like to use it to ask and give me a link back. Please and thank you. Just a thought.
Start by opening a picture or an image that is finished. I picked a header that I did for a background. I went to my materials palette and chose two colors then clicked on my foreground material palette, gradients, and chose foreground-background. You can choose a plain color or pattern or anything you like. I chose two colors from my picture. A darker and a lighter.
Go to your top toolbar and choose Image-Add Borders. You will get a popup box for borders. Choose these settings.
If your piece is dark like mine choose white for the color. If you click on the color square it will bring up your colors palette. If your piece is light choose black. If there are varied hues of white and black in your piece choose red or yellow. You will be covering it up but you must choose a contrasting color so that none of your background is picked up when you do the next step.
Choose your selection tool, third tool down and click on the arrow. When you get the fly out choose your Magic Wand. Touch your magic wand to the border you have just put on. Make sure your picture is exactly how you want it because the add borders will merge all your layers.
These are your settings for the wand in the tool bar above your workspace.
Add-0 tolerance-contiguous checked-0 feather-anti-alias checked-outside
Now choose your paint can icon or fill tool and fill the area that is in a marquee with a left click. This will fill your border with whatever you have chosen in your foreground materials palette.
Go to the top of your tool bar after you have done this and choose Effects-3D-Inner bevel.
Use these settings.
Bevel 2Width 15
Smoothness 5
Depth 4
Ambience 5
Shininess 40
Color white
Intensity 30
Elevation 50
<----If you click the eye you will see the change on your image. The dice is for getting random changes. You can make your border look any way you want.
Click ok.
Now if you want to define a border you can choose Effects-3D-drop shadow. Make it from 1 to 5 to start out in a color that will go with your picture but is dark enough to show a faint shadow. Low settings, like 50 for your opacity and 5 to 10 for your blur. Then choose Effects-3D-drop shadow and leave the settings the same except make the shadow a minus in the first two boxes so you will have a shadow on the other side as well. This is just something else you can do but you can skip this if you want.
Now choose selections-select none.
Choose Image again, add borders, again and this time make your border smaller like 5. Make it in a contrasting color again. Choose your magic wand again and touch your new border. You should just have a marquee around the new border.
Use the same fill color you used before from your materials palette and fill this border.
This time go to Effects-texture effects-blinds. These settings.
Width 4
Opacity 100
I chose black for my color
Check horizontal
Uncheck light from left top
Selections-select none. Go to Image-add borders again and make your border bigger, 8 or 10, or whatever you prefer. Just something that is larger. Make it in your contrasting color, get your wand and select your border again. Fill this border with the same gradient fill color. This time after I filled with my color I went to Image in my top tool bar-and chose mirror to put the gradient fill opposite to give it some balance in color.
Choose Effects-Art Media Effects-Brush Strokes. If this doesn't show much of a difference go to Effects-Texture Effects and use something in there, just play with it until you find something you like.
These are just three examples of choosing effects for your borders. You can be as simple or wild as you like.
When you get your border how you like them I want you to put corners on the frame you have made.
You can get some beautiful corners here at Karins Creations. They are zip files. Extract them to your My PSP files in a folder outside your PSP files. I created an embellishments folders for corners.
Find a corner you like and double click to bring it up in your workspace. Now you are going to want to make it the color of your borders so go to your top tool bar and choose Adjust-Hue and Saturation-Colorize. When you get the colorize box go to hue on the left and find the color closest to your border. Then go to the saturation box and choose the depth of color that looks best on your border. Click ok.
Right click on your corner image, copy and right click on your bordered image and paste-as a new layer. Above I had chosen a corner I didn't like so I went back and found another one.
You may have to risize your corner to make it look better by choosing Image -resize-smaller or larger, uncheck resize all layers. I usually resize by 75% up or down until I get it the size I want it.
Now go to your layers palette over at the right and right click on the layer with the corner and duplicate three more times.
Here is another one I did to show you the layers palette.
You will have your bordered layer and the original corner and the three duplicates. Your first one that is highlighted here is already in the top left position. Highlight the next layer up copy 1 and choose Image-Mirror. Click on copy 2 and choose Image-Mirror, Image-Flip.
Click on the last copy, copy 3 and choose Image-Flip. Now you should have a corner in each corner of your main image. Right click on copy three and merge down. Right click on copy 2 and merge down. Right click on copy and merge down. Now you should have two layers. Your merged main layer and the four corners above it.
Just for fun highlight your four corners image in your layers palette and Choose Effects in your top tool bar-3D-Inner Bevel using your same settings that you used before. Go back to Effects 3D and choose drop shadow putting a drop shadow on your corners to make them stand out. I used the same settings on drop shadow only raised the opacity to 100. Using the plus and minus again.
Right click on your corners layer in your layer palette and merge visible to merge all your layers.
Remember if you are doing a header that you want a specific size you will have to choose Image-resize to that specific image because adding borders adds size to your piece.
These are the two things I did.
This tut copyrighted by the owner. Any similarities to other tutorials is coincidental. It would be nice if you would like to use it to ask and give me a link back. Please and thank you. Just a thought.
