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Graphic as a Filled Frame
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By Hootytuts aka Doyle Allen 6/29/03
Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup!
See their results at the bottom of this tut!
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Needed: This was written with PSP 8 but you should be able to use PSP7 to get the same results.
Intermediate skill level
Basic knowledge of how to remove a background from around a graphic! If you don’t know how to do this here are some links to learn that sort of thing!
Point to point Lasso tut (Complicated Backgrounds)
http://pages.ivillage.com/psp_easy_as_123/cuttube.html
To remove solid color backgrounds
http://pages.ivillage.com/psp_easy_as_123/jpgtubetutorial.html
A graphic of a flower, animal or something to insert another graphic into. Look at examples for an idea.
A graphic to insert into the other graphic that will maintain the graphic theme.
1. Open your graphic that we will use as the frame.
2. Shift + D (duplicate image) and close out the original.
3. Right click on the Layers palette background and select Duplicate Layer.
4. Click on the Glasses 
on your Background layer in the palette so it won’t be seen.
5. Remove the background around the image by which ever methods you choose. The method(s) you choose will depend on the background that is around your image.
See above for some good tuts to help you do this.
6. Right click on the layer palette and duplicate the image that you have removed the background from (layer 2)
7. Click on the Glasses
on Layer 2 in the palette so it won’t be seen
. We are going to work with layer 3 now.
8.
Eraser
Tool: Remove any area’s that you do not want the image to show up in when we
paste it ... Such as the head, feet or in my case the feelers, body and wing
tips!
Compare
to above!
9.
Magic
Wand: Select the transparent area by left clicking on it.
10. Ctrl + Shift + i (Inverts selection)
11. Selections/Modify/Contract
I used 20 to come up to the inner black edges of the butterfly wings. On the image that you use just keep in mind that you want enough left to outline nicely so you may need to use something a little smaller or larger than the 20 I used.
12. Hit Delete on your keyboard!
13. Open the graphic that you want to put into the selection!
14. Edit/Copy
15. Click back on your transparent graphic to reactivate it.
16. Ctrl + Shift + L (paste into selection)
17. Ctrl + D (de-activate selection)
18. Click on the Glasses in both of the layer
palettes
to
reactivate all of them
and
look at what you have got!
19. On your Layers Palette change the mode on layer 3 to Illuminance (Legacy), Screen or overlay. Check out your options and find the one that you find most appealing for the one that you are working on at this time.
Also, don't forget that you can use the opacity sliders on the layers palette too!
Kewl I hope!
20. Note: At this point you can use your eraser
on the 3rd layer for any last second touch ups that you want!
I didn’t like 2 things on what I ended up with . The background and the way the pasted graphic doesn’t mesh nicely next to the body.
This is how I changed this and that!
21. Layers/Add new raster layer
22.
Flood
Tool: Fill the layer with what you like.
23. Move the new layer to right above the original background layer. Click and drag it there or Layers/Arrange/Move down (twice)
24. Click on the glasses on the layer 1 and 2 background layers to deactivate them.
25. Click on the top layer to activate it.
26. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible
27. Smudge Tool: Use this to move the pasted graphic over any areas that you would like to cover to improve the appearance.
28. You might want to add a very slight drop shadow at this point. You don’t want one that will go paste the edges of your background!
29. Click on the glasses on Layer 2 to reactivate it.
30. Layers/Merge/Merge All (flatten)
31. Now you may want to Resize, add a frame of your choosing and save as a JPEG!
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Well that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!
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Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup!
Thanks to all the great testers that help me to make these tutorials as good as they are!
The testers are always a vital part of the end results of what you end up using.
Special thanks to all the testers:
Here are some of the results from the testers!
