framing?

[ramstheann]

hey! i'm kinda a newbie on digital scrapbooking and i'm lost. i got a new kit and i'm trying to frame the pictures.
i use photoshop cs4... but what mode do you put it in? i've tried screen, multiply.. the main ones and it still doesn't look right?

sorry if i sound dumb, but how do i make the picture fit INTO the frame and look legit?

thanks so much in advance!

[BrattyMeg]

are you using a frame element from the kit ? If so I'd just leave it on normal mode and put a slight drop shadow on the frame

I think there's a resize tutorial on our tutorial blog let me go look and link ya back up

Welcome to SSD too!

*edit*
Here's some new to digiscrapping tutorials including one for resizing
https://www.sweetshoppedesigns.com/t...digiscrapping/

[Penny Springmann]

Let us know if you still need help!

[dana]

yep - what meghan said! let us know if that doesn't work for you let us know and welcome to SSD!

[dailydwellin]

Okay I use PSE, so it may be different for you, but here's how I frame a picture.

1. Arrange the picture layer under the frame just the way you want it to look
2. With the frame layer selected use the magic wand to click inside the frame
3. Select > Inverse
4. Select the picture layer and hit the delete key (everything that's not inside the frame will be deleted) and the picture will look as if it's inside the frame
5. add a drop shadow to the frame and a slight glow to the picture

Hope this helps and it's not too different than what you need to do for CS4

[mrshobbes]

Welcome to SSD! I hope these suggestions work for you

[sprauncey1]

Originally Posted by dailydwellin

Okay I use PSE, so it may be different for you, but here's how I frame a picture.

1. Arrange the picture layer under the frame just the way you want it to look
2. With the frame layer selected use the magic wand to click inside the frame
3. Select > Inverse
4. Select the picture layer and hit the delete key (everything that's not inside the frame will be deleted) and the picture will look as if it's inside the frame
5. add a drop shadow to the frame and a slight glow to the picture

Hope this helps and it's not too different than what you need to do for CS4

Or similarily use the magic wand to select inside the frame, then expand selection by a 10 pixels (Select-modify-expand),
on a new layer fill selection with any color (Fill-color),
put photo over shape and Control-Alt-G to "clip" it to the shape.
Then make sure the frame is on top and has a nice drop shadow added for realism.

I like to do this and then can resize everything together/move together on the page.

[dailydwellin]

Originally Posted by sprauncey1

Or similarily use the magic wand to select inside the frame, then expand selection by a 10 pixels (Select-modify-expand),
on a new layer fill selection with any color (Fill-color),
put photo over shape and Control-Alt-G to "clip" it to the shape.
Then make sure the frame is on top and has a nice drop shadow added for realism.

I like to do this and then can resize everything together/move together on the page.

Oh, I haven't tried it this way....I'm going to do this the next time I use a frame. Thanks!