Mitred Corners Tutorial

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Don't forget to save your work often. Select your bottum right layer: Go to the right top corner and use the eraser tool like this: Go to the bottom left corner and erase like this: Deselect. Select the top left layer in your Layer Manager. Erase the bottom left corner like this: And the top left corner you should be able to figure out yourself ;-) Right click: Select All Objects Right click: Merge as a Single Object It should look like this: Your frame is ready now. At this point you may want to save it in your EasyPalette for later use. Deselect.

Instructions: Page 2

Don't forget to save your work often.
Select your bottum right layer:

Go to the right top corner and use the eraser tool like this:

Go to the bottom left corner and erase like this:

Deselect.
Select the top left layer in your Layer Manager.
Erase the bottom left corner like this:

And the top left corner you should be able to figure out yourself ;-)

Right click: Select All Objects
Right click: Merge as a Single Object
It should look like this:

Your frame is ready now.
At this point you may want to save it in your EasyPalette
for later use.
Deselect.

Let us put a picture in our frame now.
Pick up your Magic Wand from the Tool Panel. Click inside the frame, right click: Expand/Shrink Expand the selection with 2 pixels. Right click: Convert to Object. In your Layer Manager you can see the size of the new object. It should be below your frame layer. Mine is 450 x268 pixels. Make a note of these dimensions. Click undo, so the object converts back to selection again. We only needed it to be an object so we would know the inner dimensions of the frame. Minimize your frame image. Open the Berthe Morisot22 image from your folder and change to the Standard Selection Tool: We need to make the selection a few pixels larger than the 450 x 268 that we need to fill our frame. Click in the left top corner of the image and use your arrow keys to select the piece of the image that you want in your frame. My selection looked like this: Click the Crop Button in the Attribute Toolbar. Right click: Copy You can close the image now, we won't need it anymore. Open your frame image again. The selection should still be there. Go to Edit in the Menu Bar -- Paste -- Fit into Selection. Right click: Select All Objects. Merge as a Single Object. Add your watermark to your work and apply a drop shadow. Fill the background with own of your own and you are done ! Merge All and Optimise and save your work. My final image looked like this: The picture below is the lovely work of ggrannyrose. Please click the link to visit her beautiful site. It is an excellent result from this tutorial, and I love the painted background. Thank you Rosalie. Feel free to grab the award : I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Have fun !!! Site map

Let us put a picture in our frame now.

Pick up your Magic Wand from the Tool Panel.

Click inside the frame, right click: Expand/Shrink Expand the selection with 2 pixels.
Right click: Convert to Object.
In your Layer Manager you can see the size of the new object. It should be below your frame layer.

Mine is 450 x268 pixels. Make a note of these dimensions.
Click undo, so the object converts back to selection again.
We only needed it to be an object so we would know the inner dimensions of the frame.
Minimize your frame image.

Open the Berthe Morisot22 image from your folder and change to the Standard Selection Tool:

We need to make the selection a few pixels larger than the 450 x 268 that we need to fill our frame.
Click in the left top corner of the image and use your arrow keys to select the piece of the image that you want in your frame. My selection looked like this:

Click the Crop Button in the Attribute Toolbar.

Right click: Copy

You can close the image now, we won't need it anymore.
Open your frame image again. The selection should still be there.
Go to Edit in the Menu Bar -- Paste -- Fit into Selection.

Right click: Select All Objects.
Merge as a Single Object.
Add your watermark to your work and apply a drop shadow.

Fill the background with own of your own and you are done !

Merge All and Optimise and save your work.

My final image looked like this:

The picture below is the lovely work of ggrannyrose.

Please click the link to visit her beautiful site.
It is an excellent result from this tutorial, and I love the painted background.
Thank you Rosalie.

Feel free to grab the award :

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.
Have fun !!!

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