Crystallized Window View
 1.
Open an image of your choice. If you want to do this tutorial as is, click
File=> new and set to half the size of an 8X10 printable page.
- width = 8 inches
- Height = 5 inches
- 300 ppi
- RGB
- White
2. If you are working without an image to start, hit control i to invert
your background color to black.
3. Add a layer. Hit your D key followed by the X key to set white as
foreground color. Fill with white.
4. Choose the Elliptical marquee tool set to new selection, 100 pixel
feather, and a fixed size of 2300 by 1400 (just inside the edges of your
canvas)
Click into your canvas and center the selection. Hit the layer mask
button on the bottom of the layers panel while your white layer is the
active layer.
 4.
Place the brush file, rasberry.abr, in your
adobe/photoshop7/presets/brushes folder.
In Photoshop click edit=> preset manager. Set the preset type to brushes
and hit the load button. Find your new rasberry brush and then hit ok
 5
Select your brush tool. Open your brush editor by hitting the brush palette
icon on the right side of the brush options bar.
Under brush tip shape. select the rasberry 156 brush you installed. Set
the spacing to about 150%
 6.
Select Shape Dynamics. Set
- size = 0
- minimum diameter = 0
- angle jitter = 75%
- roundness = 0%
 -7.
Check and click on Scattering.
- Check Both axes box
- Set the scatter to 200%
- set count to 8
- Set count jitter to 50%
8. Make sure the mask is highlighted on the Layers panel. On the brush
options bar set the brush to white and set the opacity to 85%
 9.
Paint slowly around the feathered edge of the mask oval. Paint again outside
and then inside the first ring.
Wa- la! You have a nice crystallized frame.
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