Making a Deckle-Edged Mat

By Wendy Williams · June 23rd, 2010

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Here’s a quick and easy way to make a deckle-edged mat, which you can use in scrapbook pages, greeting cards and more.

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14 Replies to Making a Deckle-Edged Mat:

Dorrie
June 26, 2010 at 11:04 am

Wendy,
I’m confused between line item 8 and 9. Line 8 says to create a new layer, call it white and drag it below the lines layer. Then Line 9 says to change foreground color to white and do “Edit >Fill Selection”…WHAT selection…I didn’t find any instructions that calls for selections anything. What am I missing here? Do you actually mean “Edit>Fill Layer”?
Dorrie
June 26, 2010 at 11:18 am

Rick,

I have a suggestion based on my having printed out this tutorial. It took 15 pages of 8½ x 11 sheets of paper to print this tutorial out. Way too much in my opinion.

My suggestion would be to reduce the size of the graphic images considerably, thus allowing more to be printed on a single page. I believe the tutorial would still be easy see and to follow the visual images.

In the past I have always copied Wendy’s tutorials and made them to fit on a 6″ x 8″ page. I guess I will have to continue to do that as it saves a lot of paper and printing. It is however more work to create.
- Rick LePage
  June 26, 2010 at 11:46 am
  
  Dorrie,
  
  Your point about the printing is a good one, although to be fair, this is one of Wendy’s longer ones.
  
  We’ll look into the printing style sheets – I thought we had set it up so a lot of the extraneous stuff was missing, and it just printed the tutorial, but that’s obviously not the case. (And you’re probably right for this tutorial that we didn’t need the graphics as big as they were.)
  
  Thanks!
  
  Rick
Wendy
June 26, 2010 at 1:21 pm

Hi Dorrie …

I am sorry for the error … Line 9 should indeed read Edit>Fill>Layer.

This is indeed one of my longer tutorials, I always try to explain things in small steps as I still remember how I felt when I first started using Elements and came across tutorials that didn’t explain things in enough detail for newbies to follow.

I guess in a way that has stayed with me :)

Regards
Wendy
Dorrie
June 26, 2010 at 3:13 pm

Thanks Wendy and Rick.

I was not intending for Wendy to shorten how she explains things in small steps, that has always been the best part of her tutorials. (Sorry I had to catch you in a error Wendy :), but we are all human) I loved the tutorial. You do a wonderful job.

It was that when printing the tutorial the graphic images were so large that it would only print one image on each page leaving a lot of the page with no further printing. I believe if the images were smaller, then more of the tutorial would be printed on a single page, thus reducing the number of pages needed to print the entire article.
Rick
June 26, 2010 at 3:21 pm

I understand exactly what you’re asking, Dorrie, and I think we can work on it. You’ve given me a couple of ideas….

Rick
Maureen
June 28, 2010 at 5:01 pm

This looks terrific. I can’t wait to try it tho I’ll be viewing the tutorial on my Macbook and working the PSE on my iMac.

What one can do to get it to print with many fewer pages is to copy the body of the tutorial, paste it into Word and then reduce the size of all the images. Tedious but you can usually get articles down to < half the # of pages. hth!
Dina
June 28, 2010 at 11:11 pm

Nice tutorial, as always.

It would be wonderful if PSE User would create a .pdf file that could be downloaded at the end of each tutorial.
Wendy
June 30, 2010 at 10:07 am

Mac users can download the tutorials as PDFs … all you need to do is File>Print then down at the bottom of the screen that pops up choose Save as PDF :)

Wendy
Charlotte
July 11, 2010 at 11:07 am

Rather than print up Wendy’s Tutorials, which is a lot of ink and paper, I prefer to follow along, using the Editor and switching back and forth to view the next step. It works for me.

Wendy, Thanks for this one…I will definitely use it.
BTW, are your photos on Flickr? I would love to make you a contact. :o)

All the best,

charlotte
Wendy
July 14, 2010 at 1:12 am

Hi Charlotte …

Sorry its taken me so long to reply but I don’t receive any notification when someone posts on the tutorials link. Its better to post a message on the forum where you can be sure that I will see the message :)

No I am not on flickr … I am not really much of a photographer, a lot of the photos I take are either snaps or ones to use in Elements and Photoshop :)

Wendy
Lois
August 13, 2010 at 4:07 pm

Hi Wendy,

I love your instructions – don’t change. Now I do have a question on a color you had me use. It was instruction #25 which was change foreground color to 18675, That number gave me a green color instead of the warm, medium brown you chose. Try as I may I could not duplicate your color. Maybe you could advise me on that one. Thank you.
- Lois
  August 14, 2010 at 5:12 pm
  
  Hi Wendy,
  
  I posted on Elements Beginners about the color you chose a18675. Only I didn’t add the “a” & the color was wrong. Anyway Seprina set me straight so I”m okay. You don’t need to email me. I’ve got to work on the tutorial some more. Thanks.
Robert
August 15, 2010 at 10:59 pm

Here is what I use to print my documents in PDF works very well. Go to http://www.cutepdf.com Here is a paragraph from the application “Read me” file.

Using CutePDF Writer to create PDF document:
DO NOT look for any application to run. Just print your document using CutePDF Writer (the printer) to get PDF output.

Open your original document and select Print command in File menu of your application to bring up Print dialog box.
Then select CutePDF Writer as the Printer to print (DO NOT select “Print to file” option).
You will get a Save As dialog box prompted for saving created PDF file.
Select a folder to Save in and enter a File name, then click on Save.
Go to that folder to find your PDF file.
I hope this is helpful. I can tell you I’ve saved a lot of paper and inkwith this one.