Magic Picture Within A Picture
Get ready to take an ordinary photo and transform it into an extraordinary image by placing a Polaroid-style frame on top of a grayscale version of the same image.
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Donna
April 1, 2011 at 9:30 am
Every time I get to the point where I Ctrl-D in step 7, Elements crashes. Any suggestion?
Brendan
May 25, 2011 at 9:53 am
Help – have persisted with this – have Version 8 of Elements but just cannot get Step 6 to work – in your instructions, the hue and saturation appears to apply to the frame area only, whilst I can only get to apply to the entire area. I assume that by filling the frame with black it allows the area within the frame to allow colour through but just don’t get it.
Would love to crack this – can you help
Brendan
Robin
June 24, 2011 at 3:48 pm
You have to Ctrl-click (Mac: Command-click) the mask on the Color Fill Adjustment Layer first to create a selection of the picture box. Then go to the Hue/Saturation layer and fill the selection with black.
francis
July 11, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Sorry, but as written, this does not work
Rick LePage
July 13, 2011 at 11:46 am
Francis,
We’ve gone over this one a bunch, and are confident that the steps are correct. Some of it is making sure that the selection (marching ants) is retained, and that you’re doing the correct steps on the correct layer, but it should work.
We’ve done a video version of this tutorial, which might be more helpful. You can see the link above.
best,
Rick
Vivian
September 3, 2011 at 6:01 pm
The video really helps. Thanks.