Advanced Tips
Adding a Drop Shadow in Paintshop Pro 6 and above: After you applied the edge to the photo, select the surrounding border with the magic wand tool and invert the selection. To avoid ugly edge pixels, contract the selection by 3 pixels and feather it by 3 pixels. Finally apply the Drop Shadow effect from the Image Menu. in Photoshop 5 and above: After you applied the edge to the photo and flattened it, turn it into a layer by double clicking on it in the Layers palette. Select the surrounding border with the magic wand tool. Press the Del key to remove the outer area and make it transparent. Apply Drop Shadow from the Layer/Effects menu. Finally flatten the image. With Eye Candy: After you applied the edge to the photo, select the surrounding border with the magic wand tool and invert the selection. To avoid ugly edge pixels, contract the selection by 3 pixels and feather it by 3 pixels. Finally apply the Drop Shadow effect from Eye Candy plugin set.
Adding a Bevel Effect in Paintshop Pro 6: After you applied the edge to the photo, select the surrounding border with the magic wand tool and invert the selection. Finally apply the Outer Bevel effect from the Image Menu. With Eye Candy: After you applied the edge to the photo, select the surrounding border with the magic wand tool and invert the selection. Finally apply the Outer Bevel effect from the Eye Candy plugin set.
Doing a Transparency Effect in Paintshop Pro and Photoshop: Resize the edge file to the size of the photo, select the whole edge and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the clipboard as a new layer into the photo file and select Multiply as a blending mode. Finally turn the transparency/opacity of the pasted layer to 50% and flatten the image.
Softening the Edge in Paintshop Pro: To get a white border apply Negative Image to the edge file. Resize the edge file to the size of the photo, select the whole edge and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the clipboard as a new layer into the photo file and select Screen or Multiply as a blending mode. Finally apply a Gaussian Blur. In Photoshop: To get a white border apply Invert from the Image/Adjust menu to the edge file. Resize the edge file to the size of the photo, select the whole edge and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the clipboard as a new layer into the photo file and select Screen or Multiply as a blending mode. Finally apply a Gaussian Blur.
Adding an Inner Border in Paintshop Pro 6: To get a white border apply Negative Image to the edge file. Resize the edge file to the size of the photo, select the whole edge and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the clipboard as a new layer into the photo file. Select the inner black area of the edge with the magic wand tool and contract the selection by e.g. 16 pixels. Feather the selection and press the Del key to delete the selection area and make the photo shine through. In Photoshop: To get a white border apply Invert from the Image/Adjust menu to the edge file. Resize the edge file to the size of the photo, select the whole edge and copy it to the clipboard. Paste the clipboard as a new layer into the photo file. Select the inner black area of the edge with the magic wand tool and contract the selection by e.g. 16 pixels. Feather the selection and press the Del key to delete the selection area and make the photo shine through.
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