Bits & Pieces Frame
HootyTut© by Doyle Allen 3/7/04
Possible Results Shown:
Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
Preparation:
1 Resize your graphic to no larger than 400 pixels
wide and no taller than 340 pixels in height.
2 Edit/Copy
3 Delete your graphic
4 Edit/Paste as new Image
Sharpen if needed.
^*^**^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*
We are going to add all the borders next without
fills or frills!
Do not have a cow! It will all make sense as we work
our way through the process.
1 Image/Add borders in the following sequence and
colors.
BLACK = 4
WHITE = 25
BLACK = 3
YELLOW = 16
2 Magic Wand Tool:
Select both white borders
Settings:
3 Dropper Tool (E):
Select 2 dominant colors from your graphic.
Darkest color for your background.
4 Select Gradient = Foreground-Background
Angle = 135, Repeats = 2, Invert = Checked,
Style = Linear
OK
5 Selections/Promote Selection to Layer
6 Flood Tool (F):
Fill both white borders with gradient
Optional:
Adjust/Add-Remove Noise/Add Noise
Settings to your liking.
7 Layers / New Raster Layer
8 Effects/3D Effects/ Cutout
Vertical = 6, Horizontal = 9
Opacity = 40, Blur = 20, Color = Black
9 Layers / New Raster Layer
10 Right Click on your Material Palette on
your foreground Little box/Other/Add to
Swatches (so you can go back to this
solid color later)
Switch Gradient back to Solid Color and change
to White.
11 Air Brush Tool:
I am using the Line left brush.
You may want to use a different one.
12 Paint some areas in your selection areas.
Here is what mine looks like this time.
Be sure you leave no gaps that you don’t want
around the edges or adjacent borders.
Also be careful that your brush edge does not cross
over unto the other border that you do not mean to
paint.
Example:
Tip:
Zoom in when you are done and look for white where
there should not be white .. use your eraser (X) for
quick removal.
13 Selections/Select None
14 Magic Wand:
Select your Brushed white areas.
15 Here you can choose a fill, color, texture etc of
your liking to express your own creativity.
However you might want to do them all the same
way so they are identical and don’t clash, but this
is your frame and your choice.
This is what I did to mine this time but I
encourage you to take your own path.
I did not do any 2 the same way as I started
making a bunch of these!
I went back to my gradient like before but unchecked
the invert and filled the white areas.
I chose a Texture called Metal Links in my
background changing it to texture and right clicking
3 times in my selected areas.
I have FM Tile Tools and selected
Saturation Emboss to give it a more 3D
grainy appearance and to give it a contrast
from the underlying gradient
layer.
I finished giving it a slight inner bevel with #2 pillow
bevel selected.
16 Selections/Select None
17 Magic Wand:
Select your Yellow border that you
had made in the beginning of making this frame.
Selections/Modify/Expand = 1
18 Selections/Promote Selection to Layer
19 Flood Fill Tool (F)
Flood
originally chose from your graphic.
Again …this is suggested & not written
in concrete.
20 Apply a texture of some kind of your choice.
I used:
Effects/Texture Effects/ Blinds
Width = 2, Opacity = 100, Color = Black
Horizontal Checked
Light from left/top Checked
21 Repeat Blinds
Same settings but UN-checked Horizontal.
22 Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel
Same settings you used before.
23 Selections/Select None
24 At this time check out your separate
layers and touch up or change anything
that you do not like.
One good thing about having the
different sections on different layers is if
you don’t really like what you are seeing
on a layer you can go back and play with
them separately.
I chose to go to my 2nd layer and make it active and
wound up adding an eyecandy Weave effect to it and
liked that better…
Remember this is a tutorial to express your
creativity.
25 Turn off all the layers except your bottom layer
by clicking on the eyes and x-ing them out on your
layers palette.
Be sure your bottom layer is the active layer.
26 Magic Wand:
Select the 2 outer Black borders
27 Fill your selected black borders with whatever
fill you want there.
I used a gold fill on this one.
28 Activate all your layers taking the x’s off all of
them in your layers palette.
NOTE:
On some of mine at this point I selected
the 2 white borders that were made in the
beginning, and added a new raster layer
and moved that layer above the filled layer
then done a cutout to give it the appearance
of being sunk in. I used different settings
at different times.
29 Layers/Merge Visible
30 (Still Selected)
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow
Adjust to your liking.
31 Selections/Invert
32 Last chance here!
Decide if you would like to bevel, cutout, maybe
add EyeCandy effects like Glass etc..
33 Selections/Select None
34 Add Corners if you like,your watermark
& save as a jpg!
Note: You may want to save as a gif instead.
Some testers lost color when they
saved as a jpg. Use your preview window
to see which way is best for your frame.
______________________
Each one you do should have a different
result as an expression of your creativity.
One tut. Many results possible.
Happy tuttin’ y’all! WEEeee!
Hugz
Hooty
Remember to Watermark your creations!
****************************************
Approved by the HootyTutTestersGroup!
Thanks to all the great testers that help me to
make these tutorials as good as they are!
The testers are always a vital part of the end
results of what you end up using.
Special thanks to all the testers:
KMRA, Sue, Pat, Maria Rosa, Adrienne, Diane,
Cal, Meshi Michelle, Janet, Roni, Linda D.
