A little bit about Adobe Photoshop
Surely, you often hear people say around: “Photoshop”, “otfotoshoopil” and your consciousness roughly outlined some idea of what kind of program this wonderful, which allows you to turn a photo into a work of art. Indeed, Adobe Photoshop software presents its user with a huge palette of image editing tools.
At first glance, when you open the program (if it is on your computer or laptop), it may seem that you never learn how to use it. But as they say, “never say never!” There is nothing difficult in this, just follow the simplest instructions that can be found on the Internet. And in this way, you can slowly make simple manipulations with photos and images.
How to make a frame in Photoshop?
Now let's go directly to how you make the frame in Photoshop yourself. If you do not have this program on your computer, then you should install it. After which you can proceed to the following actions:
- Open in Adobe Photoshop the photo on which you want to put a beautiful frame.
Start the editor and open the picture you want to decorate.
- Go to the internet browser you use. You will need a search engine.
- In the search field in the category "Pictures" write "frame for the photo." Among the results that appear, download the one you like. Pay attention to the fact that the format of a photo with a frame should be .png, and its background should be transparent.
- You can also just write “download frames for photoshop” in the search box. From the presented resources you can download entire collections of frames.
- Now open the photo with the frame in a new window of the Photoshop program.
- The next step is to overlay the frame on our photo from point 1. In the window with frame, select the “Move” tool. It is located on the left toolbar at the top (black arrow with a displacement icon). Or press the V key to quickly call the tool.
- Place the cursor on the frame and click the left mouse button. Now, without releasing the button, keep the cursor on the tab with your photo. The tab is located below the main top menu. If you did everything correctly, you will be taken to your photo from point 1. Now move the cursor to the photo area and release the left mouse button.
- At this stage we were able to insert a frame. But you may have noticed that the sizes of these two pictures do not match. What to do? Under the top menu, put a tick in the "Show controls". Now around the frame there are buttons for adjusting the size. With their help, adjust the image to the desired size.
- When done, you can save the result. To do this, select "File", then click "Save As ...", and then select the folder for the file. In the image format field, select .jpg.
- Done! You can show your creation to friends or relatives. Or simply print the finished picture and paste it into the photo album.
Using ready-made frames from the Internet, you can quickly decorate your photo.
How to draw a frame yourself?
Here you have to sweat a little. The fact is that beautiful patterned photo frames are drawn by professionals, often resorting to the help of a drawing tablet. And in most cases, artists do it. It is not possible for a simple user to draw a patterned frame. However, you can make a simple frame for your photo, but with its own texture and outstanding shape. To do this, do the following:
- To begin with, all in the same browser, find the texture that you like and which stylistically fits your photo.
- Then, just like in the previous instructions, add it to the new Photoshop tab.
- Now the fun begins! You can try to cut the frame yourself, or you can use auxiliary tools. They are located on the panel to the left, below, under the black arrow. By default there is a rectangle. Click on it with the right mouse button and select a shape that will be a stencil.
- Next, draw this shape by clamping the left mouse button on the texture and dragging it to the other end of the picture.
- The size of this figure can also be changed, as in the previous example (paragraph 8).
- In order to adjust the size of the frame, you must understand that the space that the figure fills in, in the future, is nothing more than your photo (point 1). And what you leave out of the texture around this shape is the future frame.
- After you have adjusted the size two times, quickly click on the shape (as if you are opening a folder on your computer). At the bottom right in the Layers tab, you will see that at the moment you are on the shape layer. Right-click on this layer and select “Rasterize Layer”.
- Next, in the left pane, find the “Quick Selection” tool. Click on it with the right mouse button and select "Magic Wand."
- Now left-click on the shape.
- In the layers tab, go to the texture layer (click on it with the left mouse button) and press the Delete key. In the window that appears, in the “Use” field, select the “Base color” item and click OK. Then in the same left pane, find the Eraser tool and right-click on the “Magic Eraser” and left-click on the background of the shape.
- Now remove the layer with the shape. If you did everything correctly, then on the background of the figure there will be a chess texture. This means that in this place is a transparent background.
Cut out the shape from the texture image, leaving the background blank.
- Done! You were able to draw your frame and now you can add it to any photo on the principle outlined in the previous instructions. It remains only to preserve the fruits of your labors.
- Click "File", then "Save As ...", then select the folder, and in the format field you should take .png. Click OK.
A little plodding - and you can make a frame yourself
Results
Today, we not only learned how to insert a photo into a frame using Photoshop, but also learned how to create our own frames. Now you can add some charm to your old photos. Share examples of your work in the comments!