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This lesson demonstrates how to create a pop-out frame design. To work along, download Tynemouth Piers Here. Unzip the file and open the image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
Undo and Navigation Steps
Two ways of undoing steps are from the top menu, Edit then Step Backwards. Alternatively, click a previous snapshot in the History Palette.
Navigate (zoom in and pan) your image using the Navigator Palette,
or the Zoom Tool. 
Activate The Hand Tool by tapping the Spacebar, keeping the Spacebar pressed, pan your image in the usual way. 
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Open your image onto Photoshop’s workspace.
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Then from the toolbar, activate the Crop Tool  , and crop your image into a letterbox style frame, as shown below. Crop Tool Lesson Here!
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Now, from the top menu, choose Select then choose All and a marquee will surround your image. Choose Edit then Copy - this copies the photograph to Windows
clipboard. From the top menu, choose Select then choose Deselect, this removes the marquee. (Ctrl then D).
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Set the Default Background colour swatch to White, by pressing your keyboard’s D key.
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Then zoom out of your image - to make it smaller - top menu View and Zoom out. Now, activate the Crop Tool, and this time, surround your image with a crop bounding marquee, then grab the top-right square handle, and drag out the bounding marquee, as shown below.
Continue manoeuvring the handles, to drag out a bounding box of equal dimensions, as shown below.
Then click the Commit current crop operation tick. 
Your image now has a white frame.
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Zoom out to enlarge your image, then press Ctrl and Backspace to fill your image with white.
 
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It is time to retrieve the image that is currently saved to Windows clipboard, therefore, from the top menu, choose Edit then choose Paste. Your original letterbox image will be pasted onto the white image.
 
If you have lost the copy saved to Windows clipboard - repeat Chapter 3, onwards.
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From the toolbar, activate the Rectangular Marquee Tool. Tutorial Here!
And working on the image layer, (Layer 1), carefully surround a portion of your image with a marquee.
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Now, press Ctrl and J. This copies the selected area, as a new layer, in the Layers palette.
Selection Note
At this stage, you will lose sight of the selection marquee. If you wish to see it, from the top menu, choose Select then choose Load Selection. Accept the default setting, and click OK in the subsequent Load Selection dialogue box. The marquee will again be visible.
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Repeat Chapter eight, this time, surrounding a different area of the image with a marquee.
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Now, activate Layer 1.
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Then press Ctrl and J to copy the area within the marquee, as a new layer, and your Layers palette will change to the following - and should display all three images.
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It is time to apply Drop Shadows to Layer 1, Layer 3 and Layer 2. Therefore, beginning with the layer that is presently highlighted, (Layer 3 in my instance), click the following Add a layer style (f, fx) icon, and click Drop Shadow from the drop-down list.
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In the subsequent Layer Style dialogue box, apply your choice of Drop Shadow. These are my settings here! - I changed just the Opacity to 61 and the Distance to 6, the remaining settings are default. Click OK, and a drop shadow is applied to your segment.
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Now, activate your two remaining segment layers, (consecutively) and apply identical drop shadows to those.
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Activate the Move Tool  - and drag (and arrange) the two smaller segments, into a triple frame effect.
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Now, either leave your design as it is, alternatively, duplicate the layers, and create more fame-segments. To create more segments, right-click a segment’s layer, (in the Layers palette), then from the drop-down menu, click Duplicate Layer. And reposition the duplicated segment using the Move Tool. To adjust the duplicated frame’s size - from the top menu, choose Edit then choose Free Transform. Free Transformation Lesson Here.
Tip
You can move the segments in very small increments by tapping either, the top, bottom, left or right arrows of the keyboard.
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There are lots of different effects that can be applied to one, or more of the frame segments - to change a segment’s hue, activate it’s layer in the Layers palette, then from the top menu, choose Image then choose Adjustments then choose Hue/Saturation. In the subsequent Hue/Saturation dialogue box, grab the Hue slider and move it to a position you like - I moved it to Minus 33 - and Colourise was unmarked. (Click OK).
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Play with different filters and settings - perhaps blurring a segment, to add contrast. When you are happy with the look, from the top menu choose Layer then choose Flatten Image.
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To apply a black border, from the top menu, choose Image then choose Canvas Size, I set the following attributes; however, settings depend on the width and colour you want your border to be.
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If necessary, reduce your image’s size Tutorial then link here to save your work.
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