CREATIVE EFFECTS
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Tidy up the edges
Double click the lower layer. Rename it and click OK.
Press Cmd/Ctrl+T, then drag the bounding box to
resize the image so it fits the frame. Press Enter to apply.
Grab the Polygonal Lasso tool and set Feather 2px in the
options. Click around the edges of the frame to select it, then
click the Add layer mask icon in the Layers panel.1
Blend in the border
Open the three retro JPEGs supplied. Go to the frame,
then right click the layer in the Layers panel (Window>
Layers) and choose Duplicate Layer. Set Destination
Document: ty_elements34 and click OK. Go to
ty_elements34, click the blending mode menu at the top of
the Layers panel and choose Screen to blend in the border.4
Soften the corners
Grab the Elliptical Marquee tool. Hold Alt+Shift and
drag from the centre to the edge of the frame. Right
click and pick Feather, then set 250px and click OK. Highlight
the layer mask thumbnail on the Blur layer, go to Edit>Fill
Selection, choose Use: Black and click OK.3
Paint white edges
Set the brush opacity to 30
, then paint with a large
soft-edged brush around the edges to fade it out to
white. In the Layers panel, create a new Brightness Contrast
adjustment layer and set Brightness 24, Contrast 21. Then
add a Photo Filter adjustment layer – Cooling Filter (82).6
Mask the colours
Grab the Brush tool, set the colour to white and the
opacity to 30
. Paint around the edges. Select the top
layer, then add a Photo Filter layer. Pick Warming Filter (LBA).
Add a Levels layer. Set the midpoint slider to 1.23. Choose
Channel: Red. Set black point 61, midpoint 1.18.5
Shift the colour channels
Click the Create adjustment layer icon in the Layers
panel. Choose Levels. On Channel: Red, drag the lower
left Output Level slider to 220, on Channel: Green, drag it to
50 and on Channel: Blue, drag the lower right Output slider
to 180. Press Cmd/Ctrl+I to invert the layer mask.