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Photo Frame effect- need help!

Hi, I am a newbie and this is my first post here. I need some help with a Photo Frame effect I have seen on some web sites. I wish to create a similar effect for my own images. Can someone help me with this. I wld really appreciate it.

First off, are you wanting a frame around the attachment picture, or a frame like the one in the attachment?

I'm going to assume you want a frame like the one in the picture.

The way I would do that would be to just drag out a black rounded rectangle from one corner of your image to another, on a new layer. Select your rectangle by Ctrl+Clicking the rectangle layer. Select/Modify/Contract by about 5px or so. The just hit delete to clear out the middle.

That's a nice simple way of doing it, even though there are a few other ways as well.

I included an attachment which shows this same effect I did in a matter of seconds.

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Last edited by eightysix, October 3rd, 2005 11:02 PM (Edited 2 times)

and you can use brushes and the smudge tool possibly to get that odd dropshadow under the frame

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THANKS, eighty six and coolaid. If you see my attached pic, the frame is not smooth, is a bit unfinished, raw, sort of rustic (if that is the right word). I will try it the way you have said, first with the rectangle and then will try to smudge it , hope it comes out OK. Perhaps there is some Photo framing software that can do this easily, if only I knew which one.