You will need
- - Adobe Photoshop CS5
Instruction
1
First, find the picture you will use as a background. In the main picture you used a pattern downloaded from sxc.hu is a repository of free images. If you decide to take a picture for the background from the same place, keep in mind that you need to register.
2
Open in Adobe Photoshop this picture. To do this, click the menu item "File" > File "Open" (Open) or Ctrl+O, select the desired file and click "Open".
3
Select the tool "Oval" (Elliptical marquee tool) and use it to create the picture the oval, which is your idea will be outside of the frame. In the settings tool, select "Subtract from selection" (Subtract from selection) and create a new oval, which will be the inner side of the frame.
4
Press Ctrl+J. This way, you have created a new layer, which will be highlighted oval frame. Find this layer in the layer list, which in turn is in the window "Layers" (Layers if it's not available, press F7), click the right mouse button and from the appeared menu choose "blending Options" (Blending options).
5
In the next window, select "Shade" (Drop shadow, the parameter list is in the left part of the window), the blend Mode (Blend mode) select "Multiply" (Multiply), Angle (Angle) is 125 degrees, the "Size" (Size) – 20-30 pixels, the other values unchanged. Select "Emboss" (Bevel and emboss and set the following values: "Stil" (Style) – Inner bevel (Inner bevel), Method (Technique) – "Smooth" (Smooth), play around with the settings "Contour gloss" (Gloss contour), "backlight Mode" (Highlight mode and shadow Mode" Shadow mode), leave the rest unchanged. Select "Contour" (Contour), "Contour", specify the "semi-circle" (Half round), and the rest leave unchanged. Click OK.
6
In the layers list, click the right mouse button on the background layer, select "From the background" and a new window just click OK. You turned the background to a full layer. Select the layer with the frame, activate the tool Magic wand (Magic wand tool) and click once with the left mouse button in the area that is inside the frame, making this area stand out. Select the layer that was the background and press Delete on the keyboard. The frame is ready, now we have to insert it into the photo.