Suspended Frame
Created December 10, 2001 © Copyright Moon's Designs
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I had fun playing around with the idea of the suspended
frame for a couple of weeks and came up with some interesting effects
using filters. I wanted to see what I could do with using only PSP
and was delighted with the results of the Rotating Mirror in the Reflection
Effects in PSP7. This tutorial uses PSP tools only.
This tutorial is written in and for PSP Version 7.04
and assumes you have a working knowledge of PSP at an intermediate
level. I am sure this can easily be done in Version 6 with a few adjustments
in paths but I have only used Version 7 so I can't make promises *S*
Don't forget to SAVE your work frequently.
You will need:
JASC's PSP (30 day free trial)- You can get it HERE
A graphic ~~ I used a picture of my hibiscus plant from my backyard.
You may use this graphic if you wish, but please credit the picture
to Moon's Designs. If you choose to use hibiscus, please right click
and save it to your hard drive.
If you are using a different graphic, you may wish
to resize it to 300 pixels at the longest side, then go to Effects-->Sharpen-->Sharpen.
We will be adding many borders to make the frame and if you resize
this now you won't lose as much clarity.
Step 1:
Open your graphic in PSP and make a copy of it (Shift+D). The main
reason for making a copy is in case I want to use the image again
and forget to change the name when I save *S* You can close out your
original graphic. Remember to save often.
Step 2:
I wanted to put a bit of an edge on my graphic so I went to Effects-->Edge-->Enhance.
Depending on the graphic you are using, you might want to try Enhance
More instead. You can also use the Undo (Ctrl+Z) function in PSP7
if you don't like the effect. Here is what mine looked like after
enhancing the edge.
Step 3:
Set your foreground color to black and your background color to a
complimentary color from your graphic. Preferably you will want a
fairly light color due to the cutout that will be used momentarily.
The color I used was #D7CCAC. You will be toggling back and forth
between the foreground (black) color and your chosen background color.
See the illustration below. Where the arrow is pointing shows what
you press to toggle your foreground and background colors.
Step 4:
Go to Images-->Add Border Make sure that symmetric is checked and
add a border of 10.
Step 5:
Take your magic wand (tolerance and feather set at 0) and select the
border -- you will get marching ants around the border. Go to Effects-->3D-->Cutout
and apply the following settings: Keep selected and save.
Step 6:
Go to Selections-->Invert and apply the following Inner Bevel.
(Effects-->3D-->Inner Bevel): Deselect and save.
Step 7:
Toggle your colors so that the black is your background color and
add a 1 pixel border. Toggle your colors back so that black is your
foreground color. Save.
Step 8:
Add a border of 25 pixels, pick up your magic wand and select it.
Go to Effects-->Reflection Effects --> Rotating Mirror and change
all settings to 25.
Keep selected and your graphic should now look like
this.
Step 9:
Go to Selections-->Promote to Layer. Go to Layers-->Duplicate.
Go to Images-->Mirror. Deselect. Now you only see your Rotated
Mirror on the opposite site, but we want to see both of them. Go to
your layer palette and reduce the opacity of the copy of promoted
layer to 50. Your layer palette will now look like this.
Step 10:
Hide your background layer and go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge
Visible. With your background layer still hidden, pick up your magic
wand and click on the transparent center. Go to Selections-->Invert
and apply the same Inner Bevel that we used previously. Open your
background layer, deselect and save. Go to Layers-->Merge-->Merge
Flatten.
Step 11:
Toggle your colors so that your background is black and add a 1 pixel
border.
Step 12:
Toggle your colors back so your foreground is black and add a 10 pixel
border. Select the border with your magic wand to get the marching
ants. Apply the same cutout we did previously (the settings should
still be the same), deselect and save.
Step 13:
We're almost done. Toggle your colors one last time and add another
1 pixel black border.
Here are a couple of others that I have done with
different graphics. Some are resized to fit into sending into groups,
others are not. If you will be submitting these to your groups, you
will want to resize them per their specifications. You can view my
Resize tutorial
on how to do this.
I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial as much as
I have creating it for you.
If you have any problems, comments or questions please
do not hesitate to E-mail
me.
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