Now it's time to add backgrounds and frames to all of our images.

Pick a color from your image that you want for you MAIN background color and put it in your foreground color. The color for your frames, put as your background color. I am using #FDF7DF as the main color and #969BB6 as my frame color. Your color palette should look like this:

Working with Image 1, add a new raster layer. Name it Background and drag it below Layer 1:

Click on your flood fill bucket and left click to fill the background color with the light color in your color palette.

If you want to apply a texture, do it now. I am using the texturizer plug-in with Sandstone at 50% scale and relief of 2.

Click on Image and Add Borders. Make sure Symmetric is checked with the size 6.

Toggle your color palette by clicking the little arrows

Add a new border with the size 8.

Toggle the color palette again and add another border with size 6.

Your image should now look like this:

Using your magic wand tool, click on the middle border. Apply the same texture as you applied to the main image (Sandstone, 50%, 2)

Now click the inside blue border, then holding the shift key click the outside border, too. They should both have marching ants now.

Go to Image --> Effects --> Inner Bevel with these settings:

Now, we need to repeat all the steps on this page for each of our little pictures (the puppy, the butterfly and the flower). Giving us these images:

Go to the next page to see how to put it all together.

Tutorial Page 1
Tutorial Page 3

 

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