I used a green glitter pattern to fill my frame and Neon Alien for the image.

Whoa! Nice glow frame image, O.

Thanks, mahv. Was going to sneak this image up there under the neon one but you ninja'd me.

That neon one belongs in a basement party room with a black light on it.

Playing with an old photo. 1941 Chrysler.
Original image here.

Great little tutorial there. I created my own mat (without any scripts) and used your tutorial for my frame. The photo is mine, as always.


Framed Squirrel by photomastergreg, on Flickr

Excellent! Everyone of ya'alls making some awesome frames.

I need to know if that squirrel fell out of the tree after stuffing him/herself with food?
It looks so relaxed in that image PM.

Great shot!

Greg, that's a superb pic of that squirrel!!! Nice frame and mat job too.

I liked the car much better after running the color burn preset on it, decided to frame it. Had a really hard time making the blue of the frame blend well with the blue of the car and it's really not quite "there" with that blue. I had a lot of fun with this image and the preset and the frame, anyway.

Hate that tree growing out of the top of the car. Did a little lighten/brighten on it but it's not improved very much.

O, you can always create a new layer and color pick the blue from the car layer, and on the new layer with frame selection bucket fill the color, then use color mode.

I did try that but didn't like the results with the layer modes.

Well I finally did one and used a picture of the jewelry I made last year here in GC.... I started out with this picture of a Dove.

then used Mahvins tutorial and came out with this.

That's beautiful, Molly! Glad you finally made it through the tute.

thanks mahvin. Didn't think I was going to get through that step 3 cuz I didn't understand it. I did get some help with it.

Anyway, thanx for the tutorial, well done...

Molly, I answered your comments on the blog, and added the info here.

To answer your question about Select - All, and Select - Border:

The menu option Select, then All, to create a selection of the entire image (marching ants). The menu option Select again, this time choosing Border, of 1 pixel (it’s all you need, because any more pixels would just move the frame that much further away from the outside edge of your image and push the frame further in on your image.

HTH.

got it... finally...

Great pics everyone. Love the crazy squirrel. I have some black ones around here but they run off before you can get a pic. I wonder if it is my cats and dog. LOL It's ok Molly i got stuck too. But got it figured out.

My cats are chilling in the window, hissing at them and my dog has that beagle desire to chase them. They're not afraid of anything! I would chase them off the bird feeder and they'd be back in about 10 seconds.

These frames are addictive. Can't do just one.

The one thing extra I did on mine was to fill in the 1 pixel border around the outside edge of the frame. The lower layer shows through when placed on a black background.

Good move, PM. I've been thinking of an easier way to do that. One alternative is to grow the selection (if it's a border selection) by 1 px, before you add the pattern/texture or color. This is, of course, after you have created the frame, and selected it and inverted.

Another way is to scale the frame layer larger by 2px both width and height. Then when you select all you have a larger selection and the 1px frame falls outside the visible part of the layer. After the frame is rendered, on that layer do layer to image size.