Thursday, January 14, 2010

Stamp's edge Photo

To put photos into a new page, we need to make it look more vivid by adding individual photo with stamp's edge.
1. Open a new page with white background and set the size to 12in x 8.5in, and set the resolution to 180 pixels per inch.
2. open a photo that you want to put into the new page and set the resolution to 180 pixels per inch too.
3. Press control-A on the photo to select it then press contol-shift-J to create a new transparent layer above the background layer.
4. Click on the transparent layer then increase the canvas size by 1 in x1 in.
5. Use rectangular marquee tool to draw a rectangle with 0.5 in bigger than the photo. Fill it with color white, click (Drop Shadow) and set the angle to 45 and size to 10.
6. Click (Window)(Brush) to select the size of eraser tip and check the spacing to turn it on, set the spacing to 175%.
7. Click the path tool to turn it on then click (window)(Path) to open the path window. click (make work path) then click "OK"
8. From the (Path window) click (Stroke path) and select Eraser from the new window then click "OK"
9. Merge the layers from top down to the layer above the background layer.
10. Click the (move) tool to turn it on then click drag and drop the photo to the new page.
11. Click the photo layer then click (Edit)(Free transform) to do some rotation and some adjustment of the size.
12. Repeat the process from step 1 to step 11 if you want to add another new photo to the new page.

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