QUICK PICTURE FRAMES
Adobe® Photoshop® 5.0 comes with more than 100 different Actions. Several of these Actions create frames. If you like the frame but want to customize it for your image, you can do so easily. In this technique, you will make a picture frame for your image and then change its color using an adjustment layer.Adjustment layers allow you to alter the color of the frame without losing its shading, beveling and texture.
1.
Open the image you want toframe. The image size must bemore than 100 pixels in bothwidth and height. This actionworks best on a flattened or aone-layer file. Here we are usingthe
Wilderness
file found in theAdobe Photoshop 5.0 GoodiesSampler folder.
2.
Choose Window > ShowActions to display the Actionspalette. Open the DefaultActions set.
100 free Actions
Photoshop 5.0 shipswith eight Action setscontaining more than100 different Actions.You can find them inthe Goodies folderinside the Photoshop5.0 application folderfor both Mac andWindows versions.Luanne Seymour Cohen,Adobe ImagingEvangelist,customizes Actions inAdobe Photoshop 5.0.
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Quick Picture Frames2
3.
Select the Wood Frame - 50pixel Action and click the Playbutton. Once you click the Playbutton a dialog box will appear.Click Continue if you have atleast a 100 pixel wide and tallimage. Click Stop if your imageis smaller than this. Applyingthe Action to your image willmake your image 100 pixelswider and 100 pixels taller thanthe original image.
4.
The Action creates a “wood”frame around your image. If you are satisfied with the image,save the file now and you arefinished. If you want to changethe color of the frame, go tostep 5.
5.
Select the
frame
layer. Fromthe Layers palette, choose NewAdjustment Layer.
Layer Effects
To change a layereffect setting, double-click on the layer effecticon, located in theLayer palette.
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