How to add a customized clipping mask/frame to your photos

A more complicated tutorial ....

I did follow Kristine's blog Lost in Creativity for the first frames that I used on my blog, as I was too lazy to do my own!!! I got requests to make a frame so I thought I would give it a go, so here goes .....

In this tutorial I am going to put a frame around a photo.

Below is the frame that I am going to use. I have designed this frame myself (first one, so it's a bit "rough") and I have made it free to download from here. All I ask is if you use my tutorial or my frame to link back to my blog!!!

The first thing to do is to download my frame from here. Make sure you use THE FULL SIZE IMAGE (click on image to enlarge). Download it and save it as a .png file.

Open both images in PSE7

If you click on these images you will get a larger image, right click and open in new tab, that way this post stays open as well.

We will work on the photo first, crop and edit (see pervious post).

Now press CTRL + J together (make a new layer). Then click on the eye so the background layer is "off".



Now click on the frame and drag it to your photo. Press CTRL + T (transform image) together and cover your photo completely with the frame.

Now your layer pallet should look like this. Frame first, then photo and then background layer.

You now need to drag the frame layer so it is in the middle of the 3 layers. Click on the frame layer keeping your finger pressed down and drag the layer so it is in the middle.



Highlight layer 1 (which is now the first one on the list). Now press CTRL + G (clipping/grouping images) together and let the magic begin!



Save your image and upload to your blog!

Hope you understood this, if not let me know and I will see if I can explain more!

Helena
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