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Step
1: Begin
by opening a new image with a black background.
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Step
2: Apply
an Edge Tool effect. Select a white color by clicking on
the color box and adjust the sliders to produce an edge that matches
your taste.
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Step
3: Apply
the Cross Blur effect of the Bluuur plugin. But you can
also apply any other kind of blur effect that is available in
your graphics application.
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Step
4:
Select the Fusion group, select the Metal effect and press
the Reset button to get a gold color. Adjust the thickness of
the frame with the first slider.
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Step
5:
Use the Magic Wand tool to select the inner area of the frame
and fill it with white color, then select the other area and fill
it with black.
Tip:
Don't forget
to feather the selection to avoid jaggies.
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Step
5:
Select the inner area of the frame again, invert the selection
and copy it to the clipboard. Then open a photo, resize it to
the size of the frame and paste the frame as a new layer over
the photo.
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Variation
1:
For
this version a normal Gaussian Blur was used in step 3 to achieve
a rounded frames.
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Variation
2:
One
of the Rainbow effects was applied after Step 4 with the
Multiply slider set to 5.
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Variation
3:
Besides
using Gaussian Blur, in the Step 4, the Blue slider of the Fusion
plugin was set to 255 and the Red and Blue silders to 0. Additionally
the Butter effect of the Breakfast group was applied with
the Shadow check box activated.
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Variation
4:
Between Step 4 and 5 a Fusion effect was applied again
with the Red, Green and Blue sliders set to 200.
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