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Creating
Metal Frames with Plugin Galaxy
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Step
1: Begin
by opening a new image with a black background.
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Step
2: Apply
the Edge Tool plugin. Select a white color by clicking on the
color box and adjust the sliders to produce an edge that matches your
taste.
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Step
3: Apply
the Square Blur effect of the Bluuur plugin. But you can also
apply any other kind of blur effect that is available in your graphics
application.
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Step
4: Activate
the Fusion plugin, select the Metal effect and press the Reset
button to get a gold color. Adjust the thickness of the frame with the
first slider.
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Step
5: Use
the Magic Wand tool to select the inner area of the frame and fill it
with white color, then select the other area and fill it with black.
Tip:
Don't forget to
feather the selections to avoid jaggies.
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Step
5: Select
the inner area of the frame again, invert the selection and copy it
to the clipboard. Then open a photo, resize it to the size of the frame
and paste the frame as a new layer over the photo.
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Variation
1:
For this version
a normal Gaussian Blur was used in step 3 to achieve a rounded frames.
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Variation
2:
The Rainbow
plugin has been applied after Step 4 with the Multiply slider set to
5.
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Variation
3:
Besides using
Gaussian Blur, in the Step 4, the Blue slider of the Fusion plugin was
set to 255 and the Red and Blue silders to 0. Additionally the Butter
effect of the Breakfast plugin was applied with the Shadow check
box activated.
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Variation
4:
Between Step 4 and 5 the Fusion Plugin was applied again with the Red,
Green and Blue sliders set to 200.
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