"Drop Shadow Framing"

[William]

See how I go with a tute on Drop Shadow framing on a PC , Photoshop and a large file TIFF or Large JPG , I usually use a TIFF file ,
#1, Load an image for Framing into Photoshop, I know this works from CS 2 onwards

#2, Just trust me on this!! Ctrl A, Shift Ctrl J, Alt Ctrl C, This brings up a little box "Canvas Size"

#3, In the new size boxes I use Inches, Note: For my 8.2mp images I use 1 inch , for Cameras like the 50D you may have to increase this to 1.5 inches , Tick "Relative" and Background colour White , Click OK

#4, You should have a white border around the image , down on the bottom right click on the FX button, Click on "Drop Shadow" and a Layer Style box will appear, Make sure Drop Shadow is ticked,

4a, Set,Blend Mode to Multiply, Opacity 40, Untick Global Light, Change the Angle to 49, Distance to 40, Spread 16, Size 57, Untick Anti Aliased, Tick Layerknocks out Drop Shadow , Click OK.

#5, That's pretty much it , If your happy with just the drop Shadow, Flatten image at this point , Done. I like to put a little stroke around as well , Thats the little white line around the image , Dont flattern, To put the stroke on stay with me.

#6, Click the little FX button again and click on stroke , Layer style box will appear again , this time make sure Drop Shadow and Stroke Boxes are ticked, Set size, I usually use 2px, It's your choice, Position, "Inside" , Opacity 100,

#7, Now the Colour of the Stroke, Click on Colour Box, It brings up a box called Select Stroke Colour, Your Choice, I always use White , Look in colour libraries , Select Colour , when happy Click OK, Click OK on the Layer Style Box as well , Thats it Done, Flattern Image

My first Tute, Hope this works for everybody - cheers Bill , If you have a Problem just post and Ask After all that Typing , Should look like this in the end.

BTW: Ive saved this as an Action on my F8 Key, One hit wonder

[ameerat42]

#4, You should have a white border around the image , down on the bottom right click on the FX button, Click on "Drop Shadow" and a Layer Style box will appear, Make sure Drop Shadow is ticked,

4a, Set,Blend Mode to Multiply, Opacity 40, Untick Global Light, Change the Angle to 49, Distance to 40, Spread 16, Size 57, Untick Anti Aliased, Tick Layerknocks out Drop Shadow , Click OK.

BTW: Ive saved this as an Action on my F8 Key, One hit wonder

William. Where do you find these in CS2? Am.

[William]

The FX Button is down on the Bottom right under the layers tab , Click on that and the layers box will appear , On CS2 it could be the the Layer style pop up Menu , I dont have CS2 anymore so I cant test it It's there somewhere , Just cant remember, The FX button maybe came from CS3 onwards?

[Paul G]

Thanks William. Good tute! Saves me that phone call I've been meaning to make to you. Will still have to catch up some time though

[dbax]

William. Where do you find these in CS2? Am.

I think you can also find it by double clicking the working layer( which is usually a duplicate of the background layer) this should bring up the FX task box...mmm CS2 seems so long ago.
Hope it helps

[William]

Thanks guys , Has anybody tried it yet ? You all may have to do a little fiddling on the sizes because of the different file sizes and dimentions from each Camera , But this is the basic way to do it , Experiment

[Taxxy]

Thanks guys , Has anybody tried it yet ? You all may have to do a little fiddling on the sizes because of the different file sizes and dimentions from each Camera , But this is the basic way to do it , Experiment

Finally got around to trying this and your explanation and details made it easy! I have been wondering about this for some time so thank you!

[Analog6]

Thank you!! For info of Mac users, to get to Canvas Size (step 2) on a Mac it is just Command +C.

Off to experiment

Bill, you are a ruddy genius. I work in pixels and used a 500 measurement on a 5000 wide pixel image. I added a black 100 pixel frame (using Canvas Size) at the end.



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[Bear Dale]

Thanks heaps

[William]

Woo Hoo !! It's working and a lot of people are trying it, Thanks for the tip on using a Mac Odille , For step #2 , As I said any Problems , Just post here and I'll try and help if I can

[MattC]

Thanks for the tutorial - I have been wondering about this for a while!

[PerfectPicture]

Thanks for the very informative tutorial William
Very helpful indeed
Just went through the steps on PC and all great.

Any Videos on these, by any chance?

Is it best to apply the border at the beginner of the Post-Process or at the end when you resize to 1024wide then sharpen image (and then add the border?).

Cheers
Robert

[William]

I finish processing the image , Save as TIFF, Then apply the border and save as JPEG , And if Resizing for the web a little sharpen as well after the resize PS : No Video at this stage

[balwoges]

Just what I have been looking for - thanks

[salnel]

It Worked First thing I was able to easily follow in Photoshop!!!Thank you so much..it's great

[William]

Glad I could help

[Elvie]

Thanks William I have been playing this for days and finding your thread was the best help Thank you Elvie

[phild]

Thanks William, I'm the laziest PS user on the planet, worked nicely for me. I have some macro buttons on the keyboard might set up that procedure on one.

[William]

Glad it was of help, You've got the right idea on setting as an Action, I just use the f8 Key on my PC , One hit and it's done , Depending on how much I crop an image sometimes the Border may be to big , Then I just do it manually

[Maezyra]

Is this possible on Elements? I have got the white frame, but I can't find this FX button / tab / thingy...