Soft Round frame
Software : Photoshop CS2
Level : Advance

Concept: The lesson is designed using Adobe Photoshop. We have used selections, different combination of image editing tools and filters for most of the effects. Photoshop comes up with lots of the options and scope for experiment is much more than you can imagine. We wish to encourage you to use different options and tools to get better output. The lessons and techniques described need to be followed as a guideline to achieve the effect.

1. Open Photoshop. Open the image to create soft round frame.

2. Create New file with 640 X 480 Pixels and drag the image on it using Move tool.

3. Create a new layer in the middle of background and image layer. Keep it Selected. You can name it as a frame layer.

4. Draw rectangular selection around the image for frame using Rectangular Marquee Tool, on the frame layer.

5. Go to Channels tab. Create new channel. Fill it with white color and deselect the selection with
CTRL+ D.

6. Filter> Artistic > Plastic Wrap

Highlight Strength: 15
Detail: 9
Smoothness: 7

7. Go back to Layers tab and create new layer. Keep it selected.

Select > Load Selection (Select Alpha 1 in the channel drop down)

8. Fill the desired color in the selection using Alt + Del and deselect using Ctrl + D. Crop the image using Crop Tool.