Making a Window Frame in Photoshop
Images used in the project:
1. Open the giraffe image or another image you wish to frame in a window
frame. It can be either square or rectangular.
2. Click image=> canvas size. Set the dimensions being 100 more pixels both ways
than your first image. So if your first one is the giraffe. 337 x 504, then
the new one will be 437 x 604. And sure the anchor is in the middle.
3. Next open burlap image. Click Select=> all. Then Click Edit=> Copy.
4. Select the Rectangular Marquee Tool set to width of 700 pixels and
height of 50 pixels. Click in the bottom left corner of your image. to get
the bottom 50 pixels selected. Then click Edit > Paste In.
5. Select the move tool and make sure the Show Bounding Box is checked.
Stretch the sides of the burlap to the edges of your image.
6. With the marquee tool set to 700 wide by 50 pixels high, click
at the top left corner to select the top 50 pixels. Select the move tool
then go to Edit > Paste In. Stretch the burlap the same way you did at the
bottom. The last two layers should each be showing a
mask.
7. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Rotate 90 ° CW. You may have
to widen your work area to be able to see the whole canvas.
8. With the marquee tool, create a rectangle of the same fixed style size by
clicking in the lower left corner. Paste In the burlap and stretch it all the way to the edges.
Double click inside the area to apply it.
9. Right click on the mask and select set selection to mask. Click back
on the image thumbnail on the layers panel. Next go to Edit > Transform > Skew. Take the top left drag handle and
pull it inward to form a 45 ° angle in the corner of the frame.
Do the same for the top right. Then double click inside
the resulting trapezoid to apply.
10. With the marquee tool set to the same style of 700 pixels by 50
pixels, lick in the upper left corner. CLick edit=> paste into. Stretch the
burlap to at least the width of the canvas.
11. Right click on the mask and select set selection to mask. Click back
on the image thumbnail on the layers panel. Next go to Edit > Transform > Skew. Take the
bottom left drag handle and
pull it inward to form a 45 ° angle in the corner of the frame.
Do the same for the bottom right. Then double click inside
the resulting trapezoid to apply.
12. With your canvas still sideways, click view=> rulers so that rulers
are in place. Right click on the ruler bar and make sure it is set at
pixels.
Using the rectangular marquee
tool set to a fixed style size of 700 pixels wide by 10 pixel high
click at the 213 mark on the left side of the canvas. You may need to
magnify the canvas to see this. Paste In the burlap and stretch it all the
way to the edges of the frame.
13. Now click on the layer just below the top one on the layers panel.
Create a new layer.
14. Go to Image > Rotate Canvas > Rotate 90 ° CCW. This will
make your image rightside-up.
15.
Using the rectangular marquee
tool set to a fixed style size of 700 pixels wide by 10 pixel high
click at the 298 mark on the left side of the canvas. You may need to
magnify the canvas to see this. Paste In the burlap and stretch it all the
way to the edges of the frame. Paste In the burlap and stretch it all the way to the edges. You should now have your
cross pieces for your window
frame.
16. If you like, you can leave your frame brown. If not, then turn the eye
off on the background layer and your
original image layer. Then Merge Visible and go to Image > Adjust >
Brightness/Contrast. Adjust
it until you get a brownish white look to it like it was painted white a
long time ago.
17. Next, if you don't like the white look, then you can go to Image >
Adjust > Hue/Saturation and check
colorize and adjust it to a color that you prefer.
18. Once you have it the color that you like, then you need to click on each
of the layers that contain
parts of the window frame and apply a Gaussian Blur. This is done by going
to Filters > Blur > Gaussian
Blur and set it somewhere between 1.0 and 2.0.
19. After applying the Gaussian blur, go to the layers panel and click on
the arrow button in the upper right corner and choose flatten image.
20. Go to Image > Image Size and reduce the size of the image before you
save for the web. You will most
likely want to save this as .jpg if your image has a lot of color
in it as most photographs
do.
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