GETTING A SOFT LOOK TO A PHOTO �?PART 3b
. Click on “Image>Add borders�?one more time.
. This time click on your “Eye dropper�?tool found on the left hand side tool bar:
. The “Eye Dropper�?tool is used when you want the background and/or foreground colors in the boxes on your color palette set to a color that matches a color in your picture. Or as in this case, where you want the color box in the “Add Borders�?box to be a color from your picture.
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. With your “Eye Dropper�?tool click on the background color of your picture.
. The color in your “Add borders�?box will change to this color.
. In your “Add borders�?settings box, change the number in the “Top�?border box to 10.
. Click on “OK�?
. Now your tag has another border around it that matches the color of your background, like so:
. Click on “Image>Add borders�?one more time.
. Change the color in your borders color box back to white. To do this just click inside the color box with your “Eye Dropper�?tool. Your color palette will open up.
. Select the white swatch on your color palette.
. Click “OK�?
. The color box on your “Add borders�?menu box should now be white.
. Change the size of your border to 25 pixels by typing 25 in your “Top�?border box.
. Again all 3 of the other sides will change to 25 automatically.
. Click “OK�?/FONT>
. Now you should have your final white border appearing on your tag, as I have on my tag too, below:
Again I added a small blue border
so you can see the last white border.
. Save by clicking on “File�?in your PSP upper toolbar. Check to make sure the correct file folder is open. You want your tag to be saved in the file folder with all the other “Soft Photo�?copies of your tag.
. Click on “Save�?
Now we will add a drop shadow to the outside of your tag.
But first we will have to create enough extra space around the tag to fit in a drop shadow.
. Go to your layer palette. You should have only one layer called “background�?
Add photo:
When we began to add our borders, we clicked on "Image>Add border". PSP sent us a message that "our image must be flattened and was this ok with us." We said, "ok".
When you flatten an image to add borders to it, you have essentially merged all the layers, even if you didn’t actually click on “Layers>Merge>merge all flatten�?(we let PSP do that for us this time simply by clicking on “add borders�?. As a result PSP now recognizes this image as a background image rather than a raster or vector layer. It is no longer recognized as a .pspimage but is considered to be similar to a .jpg or a .gif. This only happens when we use “merge flatten�? NOT when we use “merge visible�? In fact, if we did not have the background that this particular tag has, meaning a background that takes up all the remaining canvas space around our picture, you would have noticed that by flattening it, PSP automatically sets the background to white, as it does for a .jpg or .gif.
What we would like to do now is make your image into a .pspimage again. And this is how we do that:
. In the layer palette, right click on your “background�?layer, then
. Click on “Promote background layer�?on the menu that opens up.
. Click on your image or tag to highlight it.
. Click on “Edit�?on your top PSP toolbar,
. Click on “cut�?
. Click on “Edit�?once more
. Click on “Paste�?and “paste as new image�?/FONT>
. If you look at the layer palette of this new image of your tag, you will notice it is now called “Raster 1�? It’s a raster layer and therefore a .pspimage again.
. Click on your new image to highlight it.
. Click on “File>Save as�?and type in “Working Copy2�?again. The same name as your old and now blank image.
. You will get a message telling you that “the file already exists and do you want to replace it?�?SPAN> Click on “YES�?and press “enter�?
. Let’s get rid of our old and empty image.
. On your OLD and empty image....Click on the “X�?in the top right hand corner, to close it.
. You will receive a message asking you if you want to save the changes to it. Click on “No�?
. So now you only have your new copy of your tag with the 3 borders on it and on your layer palette it is called “Raster 1�?
. Right click on that 1st and only raster layer to highlight it and select “add new raster layer�? so that we now have 2 Raster Layers in our layer palette.
. Now you have two layers. If you run your mouse over each one you will see your tag on the bottom layer and nothing on the top layer.
. Your 2nd layer should now be highlighted.
. If it is not, please click on your top layer (2nd layer) and highlight it.
Cont'd...... see 3c
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