EASY~PEASY LACE FRAME FROM MASK |
Paint Shop Pro Tutorials by Karen |
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I was playing around with psp and masks trying to find different effects, and I accidentally made a frame shaped mask look like it was made of lace. I liked the effect so much as I love real lace. I thought I would try to recreate the frame so I can show you how to do it too! Here`s how to make a very simple but very effective lace frame... |
Start a new image as in fig 1. |
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Ready?... Let`s make lace...!!! |
Go to Masks / Load from Disk. Search for "kkm33" (or your mask) as in fig 2 then click open. |
Your image should look like fig 3. |
It`s already looking pretty lacy, but it just needs a little bit of editing to make it appear more defined.... (you won`t notice much difference while doing this but it will look better when you use the finished frame!) Next, go to effects / enhance photo / clarify, set as fig 4. |
Now go to effects / edge / trace contour, then effects / edge / enhance more, and then effects / sharpen / sharpen more. Now go file / save as, find your psp frames folder and save as in fig 5. (Make sure you add the file extention .pfr after the name or the frame won`t work!) You could also tube it or save as a normal psp image. |
To use your new frame... open the picture you want to use then go to image / picture frame. use the drop down list to find "laceframe" (or whatever you named it!) as in fig 6. |
Click next, choose whether you want the frame "inside" or "outside" the picture as in fig 7. |
Click finish... your picture will now have a pretty lace effect frame (fig 8) |
Now go layers / merge / merge visible and save it. That`s all there is to it! I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, which was written for PSP V 7 but should adapt for other versions. |
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