|
Out the Box Tutorial
1. Open image that you want to work on
2. Duplicate layer.
3. Turn off background layer by clicking on the small eye on the left of the layer in the layers palette.
4. Click on the layer mask Icon ( small box with circle) at bottom of layer palette to make a layer mask.
5. Add new layer
6. Select rectangular marquee tool
7. Draw box roughly in the middle of your “subject”
8. Select Paint bucket and click inside the box u have just drawn to fill with white ( make sure that the top box in the colour pickers is white)
9. go to Select > Modify >Contract
10. type in anything between 30 upwards depending on how thick you want your “frame”
11. Hit Delete on the keyboard.. then deselect the selection. You should be left with a White “Frame!”
12. got to Edit > Transform> Distort
13. Drag the corners to give the impression that the frame is sitting at an “angle” and reposition frame if necessary with part of the “subject” out of frame, hit enter when happy with position
14. Select Add Layer Mask Icon ( square with circle) again to create a mayer mask in the “frame” layer.
15. Select the brush tool and with black being the colour on the top box start to paint out the frame over the part of the subject that u want infront of the frame. If you make a mistake change the colour to white and paint it back in again.
16. Click on Add new Layer icon to make a new layer, and drag it down until it is above the original background layer.
17. Select the gradient tool in the tool bar ( shares a space with the paint bucket) then click on the shaded rectangular box in the top left of the top tool bar to open the gradient editor
18. select a gradient that you want in the image background.
19. Making sure that the empty layer above the background layer is selected, click and drag on the image from top right to bottom left. Nothing will change but you will have added a gradient which will become apparent as you work on.
20. Click on the layer mask ( white box) in the third layer up, make sure black is the top colour in the colour picker boxes and paint out the background to bring up the gradient
21. as before change the brush size and go from white to black to correct any mistakes,.
22. Make sure you have the top layer highlighted and click on the magic wand tool, this should select the gradient up to the frame, go to Select > inverse so that only the frame is selected
23. Click on add new layer icon
24. make sure black is the top colour and select the paint bucket, fill the frame so it is black
25. deselect
26. drag layer so that it is above the gradient layer
27. click on the move tool and drag the frame out so that the black moves to the back of the white frame.
28. go to Filter > Blur> Gausian blur and select an appropriate setting to blur and give a drop shadow effect.
29. Adust opacity if necessary
30. Crop to suit
31. Finished!
|