Framing Tutorial


Frame

Give your work the finesse it deserves.

-Open a black buffer, e.g. 650 x 190

-Paint white "wiggles": airbrush 22-6-0

-Click on Smear and set your airbrush to: 8-100-0 Make tentacles, coming out of your wiggles, nice thin endings Fix

-Copy the buffer and send the copy to the Alpha Channel

-Emboss the original with the default setting (East-Grey Background-Grey Edges) Fix

-Open a white buffer: 650 x 190 Select Filled Rectangle from the Toolbox select "Top to Bottom" from the Trans.Gradient window

-Mix a warm orange:

HSB 29, 255, 255

-Chose Paint from the Toolbox and fill the top half of the buffer Fix

-Select "Bottom to Top" from the Trans.Gradient window and fill the bottom half of the buffer Fix

-Mix a brown gold: HSB 25, 255, 187

-Fill the bottom half Fix

-Select "Top to Bottom" and fill the top quarter Fix

For a nice bronze frame now use the "Antique" paintmode with a transparency setting of 45%

-Copy the embossed buffer to the Second Channel

-Copy the black and white buffer to the Alpha Channel

-Rubemboss......finished!

-Scale your frame strip half the size vertically

-Build the frame by using the Filled Polygon Tool, black paint, and cutting away triangles for composing the parts together.

You can now frame you favorite picture!.

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