101 QUICK AND EASY SECRETS FOR USING YOUR DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS- P27:Millions of people around the world have many photos stored on their laptop and desktop computers, external hard drives, CDs and DVDs, and flash drives. Most images are just sitting there idle, waiting for the world to see them. Some have been unused for years. Up until now there has been no guide to help people find ways to use these photos. | 116 As Pretty as a Picture Frame Figure Step 2 in LoonaPix is to choose a frame. LoonaPix also offers LoonaPic Effect and Face Effect options. One of the options for a LoonaPic Effect is to put your face on a hundred-dollar bill. What fun Making a Frame for Your Photo in Photoshop Photoshop and Photoshop Elements have much to offer for framing a photograph. To be sure it takes several steps to do it but once you get the hang of it the sky is the limit with the kinds of photo frames you can create. Here are the steps to make a basic photo frame in Photoshop. Before you begin resize your photo to around 6x9 inches. Refer to the Resizing Your Photos for Different Uses section in Chapter 1. 1. Navigate to Image Canvas Size. 2. For a 1-inch frame add one inch to the height and width values. So a 6x9 image would be a 7x10 canvas size. Choose white as the canvas extension color. By checking the Relative box you can enter any number you wish without the hassle of addition. The program then adds whatever number you put in the Width and Height fields to the canvas size. 3. Navigate to Layer New Layer. Name it Outer. As Pretty as a Picture Frame 117 4. Use the Rectangular Marquee tool and make a selection just inside the outer border of the canvas. 5. Choose Select Inverse. 6. Navigate to Edit Fill and choose black for the color. 7. Navigate to Layer New Layer. Name it Inner. 8. Use the Rectangular Marquee tool and make a selection just outside the inner border of the canvas. 9. Navigate to Edit Fill and choose black for the color. 10. Navigate to Select Modify Contract and type 4 for the value. 11. Navigate to Edit Cut. 12. Go to the bottom of the Layers palette and click the Add a Layer Style button. Choose Drop Shadow from the drop-down menu. 13. Play with the Distance Spread Size and Opacity sliders. Voila Your frame should look something like you see in Figure . You can change anything you want now the colors with the Paint Bucket the rectangle thickness with the
