Heart Scroll Frame

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This tutorial is intended for a beginner to learn about using brushes and transformations.  If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

To do this tutorial you will also need Photoshop CS or CS2.  You may download a free trial at Adobe.

Remember to save as a .psd file often!

1.  Download the Heart Scroll image.  Right-click on the link and choose Save As.

2.  Open the Heart Scroll image in photoshop.  Edit > Define Brush Preset.  It will pick the name.  Choose ok.

3.  Choose the Custom Shape Tool

4.  Open a new, transparent image, size = 400 x 400.

5.  Set the foreground color to red and draw a heart in the canvas..  Right-click on the layer and choose Rasterize Layer.

6.  With the magic wand, click inside the heart.  Selection > Modify > Contract > Contract Selection by 3 pixels. DELETE.  This makes an outline of the heart.

7.  Layer > New > Layer.  Drag this layer to the bottom of the Layer Palette.

8.  Choose the paint brush tool, then set the brush tip to the heart scroll brush, size = 70 - 75 pixels.

9.  Set your foreground color to white, or color of your choice.  Left-click once by the edge of the heart.  Edit > Transform > Rotate.  With the mouse, drag one of the corners counterclockwise to rotate the scroll to fit the heart, like in the picture below. (Background was added so that you could see the scroll)

10.  Right-click on the scroll layer and choose Duplicate.

11.  Edit > Transform > Rotate.  Rotate the scroll to fit into place alongside the heart and next to the last scroll image.  Use the mover tool to move into place.

12.  REPEAT Steps 10 & 11 until you have hearts all around one side of the heart frame.

13.  HIDE the Heart layer (and any background layer you may have put up) by clicking on the eye of that layer.  Right-click on one of the other layers and choose Merge Visible.

14.  UNHIDE the other layers.

15.  Right-click on the merged scroll layer and choose Duplicate. 

16.  Right-click on the duplicate layer and choose Merge Down.

17.  Right-click on the merged scroll layer and choose Duplicate.

18.  Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal.

19.  Right-click on the duplicate layer and choose Merge Down.

20.  Click on the Heart layer on top.  With the magic wand, select inside the heart.  Selection > Modify > Expand Selection > Expand by 1 pixel. 

21.  Click back on the Scroll layer and hit the DELETE key on keyboard.

22.  Layer > New > Layer.  Drag this layer to the bottom.

23.  Open the image that you wish to frame.  Edit > Copy

24.  Click on the blank new layer at the bottom.  Edit > Paste.  With the mover tool, move the pasted image around to get the part you want into the frame.  Edit > Transform > Scale (if you need to resize.

25. Go back to the heart layer and select inside the heart with the magic wand.

26.  Go back to the photo layer at the bottom.  Select > Inverse.

27.  Hit the DELETE key.  This should delete the extra part of the photo outside the heart.

28.  Now save this as a GIF.  File > Save As.

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