{"id":29701,"date":"2019-04-09T20:17:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/?p=29701"},"modified":"2019-04-09T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T03:17:22","slug":"tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gingerscraps.net\/gsblog\/2019\/04\/tutorial-tuesday-photoshop-elements-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Tutorial Tuesday (Photoshop Elements)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stackin’ ’em Up!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I’m seriously in need of a week where I’m actually not scrambling for a tutorial post! I was wide awake at 1 am wracking my brain for a topic. But what do you know… one magically appeared. I remembered there were still some really useful Guided Edits<\/strong> I haven’t shown you yet, so that’s what we’re doing. Let’s look at the Photo Stack<\/strong>, just for fun.<\/p>\n

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When I tell you that this technique is literally only about a 10 minute job, I know you’re thinking, “She always says that.” But it really is SO much faster even than using a template with photo stack, because with this edit, the software does ALL<\/span> the copying and stroking. All of it! The hardest part is deciding which of the three options to choose, and I think that comes down to what you want the focus to be.<\/p>\n

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All I did to get this image was to click just once on the 4 frame spot I’ve shown below.<\/p>\n

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The very first image has the narrowest border already in place. A single click on one of the border options is the next step.<\/p>\n

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The medium border is still pretty skinny.<\/p>\n

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Even the widest one isn’t especially in-your-face. But that’s completely under your control! Before I show you that part, let’s look at the other two stack options.<\/p>\n

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The eight frame option looks like this with the baseline border.<\/p>\n

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Beefing up the borders to medium still lets a lot of the original image through.<\/p>\n

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Then the wider one, still not much of a distraction.<\/p>\n

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And then there’s the twelve frame option.<\/p>\n

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Medium<\/p>\n

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Wide<\/p>\n

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With this photo I think 4 frames is the right choice. So now I’m going to move to the Expert Editor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Whoa! Look at all those layers! And each one is another opportunity to fine-tune the final image. (Notice the multiple copies of the photo layer? It’s a GREAT thing!)<\/p>\n

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Here I’ve selected one of the border layers. The border is actually simply a stroke on its own layer. The default settings are 10 pixels<\/strong> and 100% Opacity<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Pulling the slider to the right makes the border wider. I could also change the colour of the border in this menu if I wanted to.<\/p>\n

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I’m going to come back to that in a minute. But first, I’m going to unlock the background (original photo) layer so I can edit it. And so I can put a transparent layer underneath it. I right-clicked<\/strong> on the layer in the Layers<\/strong> panel then chose Layer from Background<\/strong>. That makes it like all the other layers, completely editable.<\/p>\n

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I then added my transparent layer underneath it by CTRL\/CMD>clicking<\/strong> on the new layer icon<\/strong> (the blank sheet of paper) at the top left of the Layers panel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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I turned the visibility of the very first black rectangle off and now the original image is visible to the edges and can be erased away, leaving a transparent area instead.<\/p>\n

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Don’t panic about having to be precise with the erasing. It’s not a problem! All those extra copies of the original photo that are clipped to the stacked layers aren’t going anywhere. You can just use a big eraser and go for it!<\/p>\n

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After I did that, I decided I wanted to shift the stacked photos so they were entirely inside the canvas. So I CTRL\/CMD>Z<\/strong> as many times as I needed to to get back to the black rectangle. Then I resized them a tiny bit, shifted them a tiny bit and rotated them a tiny bit until I arrived at what you see below.<\/p>\n

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Then I decided to make the borders just a smidge wider. I double-clicked on the\u00a0fx<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>icon on the first border layer to get into the Styles<\/strong> menu.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t go overboard, just doubled the width of the border on each one. And then I went back and erased the areas of the original photo layer to make my stack usable.<\/p>\n

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An advanced version of this Edit<\/strong> would substitute other photos for some of the frames, but it would be almost as much work as using a template would be… the photos would need to be resized and rotated individually then clipped to the spots.<\/p>\n

If I was ready to put my layout together, I could just leave it as is for now and come back to it later. But I’m going to save it for later.<\/p>\n

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In order to be able to use it for a layout, the transparent background is essential. So I’m saving it as a PNG file<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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To keep the images sharp I’m using the Slowest<\/strong> setting and Non-Interlaced<\/strong>. I gave it a name and saved it to the folder I’ve created for my (future) layout.<\/p>\n

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Before I forget, LilyAnn Fisherman<\/strong> left a comment on last week’s tutorial asking me if I couldn’t have made my clock face by texting-on-a-path. So I went back and did it again, using Text on a Shape<\/strong>. It was maybe a tiny bit less work, but I still had to fiddle with the spacing to line the hours up with where they should be on the clock.<\/p>\n

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And while I was at it, I did a mock-up of what I hope the clock will look like when it’s finished.<\/p>\n

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Check back in a few weeks to see if I succeed!<\/p>\n

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