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1. Open the
picture you want to use, and press ctrl d or edit/
duplicate. |
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2. Working from
the duplicate of your picture, click effect/blur /Gaussian
blur.
Versions 5-7 Effect/
blur and sharpen/ Gaussian blur.
3. A window will
open. If your window that opens shows 6 small thumbnails of the
image, click the options button.
Change the variance to 15.
Click ok. |
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4. Click
effect/2d/whirlpool. Version 8 users will find this under Effect/ Distort/
Whirlpool instead. Again, click the options button if you have 6
thumbnails. In the new window, change the twist degrees to
245. |
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5. Click
web/shift image. Look at the height of your image. Divide by
two. Enter that amount into the box beside Vertical. You can
tell the height of your image by looking at the image dimensions.
Click ok. |
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6. Repeat step
4.
7. Click format/dimensions. For versions 7 and 8,
click format/ Image Size. Set the unit to pixels, and unclick "Keep
aspect ratio". Resize the image to 1024 by the height of your image
plus about 20 to 40 pixels. Since the height of this image is 208,
my dimensions will be 1024 X 248, since I chose to add 40 pixels.
You now have a strip. |
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8. Apply a
texture with the texturizer. Click effect/texture/texturizer.
I used my psd named 13X100.psd. You may download it here.
If you don't have the
texturizer filter and you are using version 8, you can apply a texture
with Effect/ Material effect/ Texturizer filter. Click the second
thumbnail on the bottom left, labled Embossed. On the right side,
under Parameters, alter the transparency to read 80 to give a more muted
texture to the image. |
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9. Now click
edit/fill, and in the color tab, set the color to a light pink from the
image. If you right click in the color box, you can choose "Color on
screen". This will make your cursor look like an eyedropper.
Click on the light pink in the flower.
If you are using version 5, you
don't have the color on screen option. You will have to use the
eyedropper tool. |
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10. Don't press
ok yet. Down at the bottom of the fill box, there is a setting
for how transparent the fill color should be. Set this to 30%. For
different images you may want to use a different setting. At 30%,
this will allow just a part of the original image to show through, causing
the image to be muted. If you are using a different image, use the
preview button to see the strip as it would be with the fill
applied. If you don't like the look, or it is too muted for your
image, use a different setting here. Colors that contrast less than
those we are using here will need a higher amount of
transparency.
When you are satisfied,
press ok.
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11. At this point,
since I was not entirely pleased with the color of the strip, I used the
quick color controls on the right side of my screen to change it. I
clicked the + beside blue one time.
Be sure to make good use of these
controls as you work with images. I have found them to be very
valuable. Any time I don't like the colors I am getting, I click one or
more of these buttons, experimenting to find a look I
like. |
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12. Going back to
the original image, right click, click all, and right click,
convert to
object. Go to
format/frame and shadow. Click the down arrow beside style, and
click magic frame. |
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13. Beside
effect, click the down arrow, and click ripple. |
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14. Set the border
color to a pink from the flower. Leave all other settings default.
Click ok. |
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15. Click format/frame
and shadow again. Leave everything the same, but change the border
color to white, and the inner edge to 0. Click ok. If you have the
background color set to the default white, you won't be able to see your
new frame on the image. Don't worry, it's
there. |
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16. Click
format/frame and shadow. This time, click the small square next to
gradient, right under color. |
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17. Click the
edit button, and click on ramp number 08. The ramps are circles
filled with the different gradients, and can be found on the right side of
the new box.
Click ok in each of the boxes that we
opened. |
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18. Right click
on the object, and click shadow. click in the square beside shadow
to place a shadow on your framed image. |
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19. Click on your
image and drag it to the first canvas with the strip on it. You will
find that your framed image needs to beresized
Use the transform tool to do so.
Don't forget to optimize before
using your strip for stationery or a web
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