101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P27 pptx

LoonaPix also offers LoonaPic Effect and Face Effect options. One of the options for a LoonaPic Effect is to put your face on a hundred-dollar bill. What fun! Making a Frame for Your Photo in Photoshop Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have much to offer for framing a photograph. To be sure, it takes several steps to do it, but once you get the hang of it, the sky is the limit with the kinds of photo frames you can create. Here are the steps to make a basic photo frame in Photoshop. Before you begin, resize your photo to around 6×9 inches. (Refer to the “Resizing Your Photos for Different Uses” section in Chapter 1.) 1. Navigate to Image > Canvas Size. 2. For a 1-inch frame, add one inch to the height and width values. So, a 6×9 image would be a 7×10 canvas size. Choose white as the canvas extension color. (By checking the Relative box, you can enter any number you wish, without the hassle of addition. The program then adds whatever number you put in the Width and Height fields to the canvas size.) 3. Navigate to Layer > New Layer. (Name it Outer.) 116 ■ As Pretty as a Picture Frame Figure 7.5 Step 2 in LoonaPix is to choose a frame. 4. Use the Rectangular Marquee tool and make a selection just inside the outer border of the canvas. 5. Choose Select > Inverse. 6. Navigate to Edit > Fill and choose black for the color. 7. Navigate to Layer > New Layer. (Name it Inner.) 8. Use the Rectangular Marquee tool and make a selection just outside the inner border of the canvas. 9. Navigate to Edit > Fill and choose black for the color. 10. Navigate to Select > Modify > Contract and type 4 for the value. 11. Navigate to Edit > Cut. 12. Go to the bottom of the Layers palette and click the Add a Layer Style button. Choose Drop Shadow from the drop-down menu. 13. Play with the Distance, Spread, Size, and Opacity sliders. Voila! Your frame should look something like you see in Figure 7.6. You can change anything you want now—the colors with the Paint Bucket, the rectangle thickness with the Contract option (increase the value for a thicker rectangle around your frame), or the shading with the Drop Shadow option. As Pretty as a Picture Frame ■ 117 Figure 7.6 Make a frame in Photoshop. . LoonaPic Effect and Face Effect options. One of the options for a LoonaPic Effect is to put your face on a hundred-dollar bill. What fun! Making a Frame for Your Photo in Photoshop Photoshop and Photoshop. are other possibilities, too, for putting your work up for sale. After you have your photos printed and framed (which was discussed in earlier chapters of this book), your photos are ready to be. download one at www .your- digital- photography.com/ model-release-form.html) for all recognizable people in your image. BigStockPhoto accepts editorial-use photos—photos without a release for street scenes,