Broken Oval Frame Tutorial

Broken Oval Frame
inserting the image

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You will also need

Picture of your choice
(Optional) the Art Texture plugin from Ulead. Download that here.
or Eye Candy 3.1 (optional)

Now let's continue!
24. Open up your broken oval frame template. Press the Shift key and the D key at the same time to make a duplicate. Close the original. Now is a good time to resize the duplicate to the size you want to use. I decided I wanted to make a gift out of mine, so I resized mine to have a height of 350. To resize, in the top menu, click Image--Resize. Click the dot next to Pixel size and type in the maximum height or width that you want. At the bottom take the check OFF all layers.

25. In the top menu, click Selections-select all. In the top menu, click selections--float. In the top menu, click selections--defloat. In the top menu, click selections--Modify--expand. Set the pixel number to 1

26. Press the delete key to empty the template of the color.

27. In the top menu, click selections--Modify--contract. Set number pixels to 3. Ok

28. Open up the image you want to frame. In the top menu, click Edit--copy. Then click on the title bar of the frame image (keep it selected!). In the top menu, click Edit--paste--into selection.

29. Your image should look like this!

30. I chose to give my image a glass effect. This is optional. In the top menu, click Effects--Plugin Effects--Eye Candy 3.1--Glass. Choose the settings below and apply:
Bevel Width= 222, bevel shape=mesa, flaw spacing = 64, flaw thickness=25, opacity = 21, refraction=0, color=white, highlight brightness = 49, highlight shininess= 43, direction = 256, inclination = 54. Of course, your settings do not have to be exactly like mine! Click the check mark. KEEP selected!

31. In the Layer Palette, right-click on the layer and choose new raster layer. Name it trim. Drag the trim layer to the bottom.

32. In the top menu, click selections--modify--expand. Set pixel number=4. Ok.

33. Flood-fill the trim layer with a color that compliments your image. I then chose to apply an art texture to my trim layer. See the settings below.

You could also use some other plugin effect of your choice! Or just leave it as plain color!

34. In the top menu, click Effects--3D Effects--Inner Bevel. Apply the settings below:
bevel shape=pie, width = 14, smoothness=15, depth=12, ambience=0, shininess=50, color=white, angle=315, intensity=50, elevation=30.

35. Now your image looks like a stained glass window Save the image as a transparent gif, by clicking on File--export--gif image. Click on the transparency tab and choose "no, use image color". Click ok.

Now you have a framed image for a sig tag or webset.

For this image, I used the circle selection tool (instead of ellipse). And I applied the inner bevel to the merged template layer (top) instead of to the trim layer.

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