Frame Tut

Create a Frame

Using simple tools in Adobe’s Photoshop CS2, follow these steps to create a simple, but complementing frame for you’re online photos. The canvas sizes used below will suite an average photo of a ratio of 2:3.

You should be able to follow along in earlier versions of Photoshop, to version 7.

Step 1
Open up you're desired photo.

Step 2
Reduce you're image to size for web, generally around 900 pixels along the longest edge.

Step 3
Increase you're canvas size (Image>Canvas Size) by 3% along you're shortest side and 2% on you're longer side.
This will create an even white border around you're image, it will become the bevel of the matte.

Step 4
Select the entire canvas (Ctrl+a) and paste (Ctrl+V), creating a replica layer.

Step 5
With the background layer selected, increase the canvas size by a further 20% along the longer edge and 30% for the
shorter edge. This will form the matte of you're frame.

Step 6
With the second layer highlighted, open the Blending Options window (Right click on the layer and select Blending
Options, or Layer>Layer Style>Blending Options). For this particular frame, I used these settings:
Style: Inner
Technique: Smooth
Depth: 341%
Soften: 8px
BevelSize: 4px
Direction: Up
This has now created the bevel in the matte

Step 7
Flatten the image (Layer>Flatten Image) so the matte and bevel are now in the one layer.

Step 8
Increase the canvas size by 6% and 8%, to the longer and shorter sides respectively, with the colour set to black.

Step 9
Select, using the magic wand tool, all of the black canvas, copy and paste it to form a new layer. This is you're frame.




	Above, the settings I used for the drop shadow on the frame.

Step 10
With the frame layer selected, open the Blending Options window. This time we're going to create a drop shadow, to
give the frame a three dimensional feeling.

Step 11
Finally flatten the image and save!


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