Arch Frame

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This tutorial is intended for a beginner to learn about setting up image ready for animation.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Photoshop CS.  You may download a free trial at Adobe.

Remember to save as a .psd file often!

1.  You will  need to open the arch tube that you made with the Arch Tutorial.

2.  With the magic wand, select the arch frame.

3.  Use the eye dropper on the image you wish to frame to pick a foreground color from your image.

4.  In the top menu, click Edit > Fill

5.  Choose Foreground Color.  click ok.

6.  In the Layer Palette, right-click on the layer and choose Blend Options.  Click on the words Bevel and Emboss.  Apply these settings:  Style=Inner Bevel, Technique= Smooth, Depth=630, Direction = Up, Size = 5, Soften = 8, Angle = 120, Altitude = 30, Gloss Contour = the half triangle.

7.  Select > Deselect

8.  In top menu, click Image > Canvas Size.  Change Width = 600, height = 500, center

9.  In the layer palette, right-click on the arch layer and choose Duplicate.  Then click on the bottom layer in the Layer Palette.

10.  In the top menu, click Edit > Transform > Scale

11.  In the top tool options bar for scale, click on the lock that means Maintain aspect Ratio, then change the width = 85%

12.  With the mover tool, move the arch to the left side, so that the larger one still overlaps the smaller one.

13.  In the Layer Palette, right-click on the smaller arch and choose Duplicate Layer.

14.  With the mover tool, drag this duplicate smaller arch to the right side. See pic below.

15.  In the top menu, click, Layers > Merge Visible.

16.  In the top menu, click Edit > Transform > Scale.  In the scale tool options bar at the top, click the lock on (Maintain aspect ratio) and change width = 80%

17.  In the top menu, click Layer > new > Layer

18.  Drag that layer to the bottom of the Layer Palette.  Make sure it stays highlighted.

19.  Open up the image that you wish to frame.  In top menu, click Select > Select All.

20.  Then click Edit > Copy

21.  Now click back on the frame image and click Edit > Paste.  This pastes the image as a new layer. 

22.  From the screenshot above, you can see that my picture wasn't quite wide enough.  If yours is ok, then skip this step.  But if yours is too short or too thin, we need to enlarge the image.  In the top menu, click Edit > Transform > Scale.  In the scale options bar at the top, click on the lock to lock the Maintain aspect ratio, and change the width = 110% (smaller than 100% will shrink the image, bigger than 100% will enlarge the image.

23.  In the top menu, click Adjust > Sharpen > Sharpen.

24.  In the Layer Palette, click on the top (arch) layer.  With the magic wand, select the region OUTSIDE of the arch frame.

25.  In the top menu, click Select > Modify > Expand.  Expand by 5 pixels.

26.  In the Layer Palette, click on the picture layer.   Then click on the delete key on your keyboard.

27.  In the top menu, click Layer > Merge Visible.

28.  Choose the rectangle selection tool.  Draw a rectangle box around the bottom of the pink frame of each arch.  HOLD the SHIFT key down to get all three.

29.  Press the delete key on the keyboard.

30.  In the Layer Palette, right-click on the layer and choose Duplicate Layer.  Highlight the bottom layer.

31.  With the rectangle selection tool, draw a rectangle box where the top of it goes a little above the bottom of the smaller arches.

32.  In the top menu, click Filter > Flaming Pear > Flood.  Apply these settings:  10, 0, 57, 50, 40, 50, 42, 25, 0, 33, 40, Normal

33.  Will look like this below.  You may need to change the first number in the filter to make sure that the flooding is level with the smaller frames.

34.  Now click on the top layer in the Layer Palette.  Now draw a Rectangle Selection box that barely touches the bottom of the smaller frames (like in the screenshot above)

35.  In the top menu, click Filter > Flaming Pear > Flood.  Change the Horizon number to 15 (or whatever that would make the flood level with the large frame.

36.  In the top menu, click Layer > New > Layer

37.  Drag this layer to the bottom of the Layer Palette.

38  With the eye dropper tool, select a DARK color from your image.  In the top menu, click Edit > Fill  and fill with the new foreground color.

39.  In the top menu, click Filter > Other Effects > Texturizer.  Apply the Sandstone Texture with the Scaling = 100%, and relief = 4.

40. In the Layer Palette, click on the top layer to highlight it.  In the top menu, click Layer > New > Layer.

41.  Draw a rectangle selection around the region of the picture that you want to keep.

42.  In the top menu, click Edit > Fill  and fill with the same color you chose for the frame in the beginning of this tutorial.

43.  In the top menu, click Select > Modify > Contract. Contract by 10.

44.  Press the delete key on the keyboard.

45.  With the magic wand, select the area outside the frame that you just made.

46.  In the top menu, click Image > Crop.

47.  Right-click on the frame layer and choose Blend Options.  Click on the WORDS Bevel and Emboss.  Apply these settings:  Inner Bevel, Smooth, 510%, Up, 5, 6, 120, 30.

48.  In the top menu, click Layer > Merge Flatten

49.  Resize if necessary, add your name and watermark, and save as a JPEG.

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