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Right click on this image and save it to your hard drive.
(Right click and click on it and click on save image as...) |
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Now open Photo
Impact, browse to the image and open it. (Click on the opening
folder icon in the tool bar.) |
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Now that your image
is open, click on Edit, expand canvas. It is marked with a one
here.
Versions 7 and 8 use format/
Expand Canvas instead. |
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A dialog box
will open, like this. Click the box beside "Expand sides equally,
and then type 30 in the box marked left. All the boxes will fill in with
the number 30. Versions 7 and 8 dialog box will be slightly different.
Click OK. |
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You have
expanded your graphic and it should now look something like this:
(larger of course and perhaps with a different background color. Color is
unimportant at
this point.) |
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Now we are ready to
select our expanded section to fill it with our desired gradient.
Right click on the picture and click all. Right click again, and click
border.
Place a dot beside inward and type 30 for
the Border width. We are using 30 because that is the amount of
pixels we expanded our canvas. |
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Look again at the
edit menu, the third image on this page. You will see that I have
marked with a 2 the word fill... Click on edit, then click on
Fill... A dialog box opens. Click on the gradient tab, and then
click in the box with the little gradient picture next to the words magic
gradient. I have marked it with an arrow. |
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Another box will open
titled pallette ramp. Look through the various gradient types marked with
arrows in the illustration. Click on the one I have outlined in red, which
is mode 14. Under the gradient circle, there is a button marked
edit. |
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Click on it, and yet another
box will open titled Palette ramp editor. For this image I have
chosen the gradient with brown tones numbered 007. It is outlined in
blue. So click on gradient number 7, and close all three boxes by
clicking the ok button in each one
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Your graphic is now
outlined in the brown gradient. Note that the selection marquee
should still be around it. |
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Now go to the button
gallery in your easy palette. Click the + beside Button gallery to
see the subcatetories. Click Any Shape Button. Find thumbnail A27, and
right click on it. Click modify properties and
apply. |
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Click on the tab
marked Bevel. Set your options as I have mine here. I have
outlined the bevel type I chose.
This bevel will not be visible until you
use the scroll button to look at the other ones available. See
arrow.
Click the ok button.
Right click
and click merge all.
Congratulations! Your graphic is now
framed. Save it as a jpg with the image
optimizer. |
