Round Wooden Frame

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. Try Wood Texture Tutorials before starting this tutorial.

2. Create a new file and view Grids. Create a new layer. Using snap to Grids and Rectangular Marquee Tool, draw the rectangular selection. Fill it with any color.

3. Create another rectangular selection inside the colored rectangle and press Del.

4. You will get the outer frame work.

5. Create another layer and repeat the same procedure to get one more frame inside the outer frame.

6. Create another layer and repeat the same procedure using elliptical marquee tool to get the following design. We have three separate layers for three objects.

7. Lock all the layers and fill the wood pattern in all the frames we have just created. (Lock the layers means select the layer and click "Lock Transparent Pixels" in the layer palette)

Edit > Fill > Pattern (Wood)

7. Fill the background with the same pattern.

8. Select the outer most rectangle layer.

Layer > Layer Style > Bevel & Emboss > Inner Bevel (Technique: Chisel Hard)

Adjust the rest of the settings according to requirement.

9. Use bevel effect on the inner frame layer.

Layer > Layer Style > Bevel & Emboss > Pillow Emboss

Adjust the settings according to requirement.

10. Select elliptical frame layer.

Layer > Layer Style > Bevel & Emboss > Inner Bevel (Technique: Chisel Hard)

Adjust the rest of the settings according to requirement.

11. Drag the picture in the frame and move it below elliptical frame. Adjust it according to the requirement.

12. Select the Elliptical frame layer and click outside the frame using magic wand tool.

13. Go to image frame and press Del to fit the image in the round frame. We have desaturated the image for the effect.

14. Try Brightness/Contrast on the frames to add spice.

14. Try Burn Tool on the frames to add more spice.

15. Try some design at the four corners of the frames to add more spice.