To start I choose the white background and not the
transparent one in most cases.
Screen Shot 1
After I R/C and copy paste I go to the Layer
Manager. I hide the base page so it will now have a
transparent background. I did not make a screen shot of
this.
NOTE: This is the same way you would fill any element you
make, the same procedure!
Screen Shot 2
Below I pulled in my frame to use, in this case it is a
bracket frame, in plain black color. Any frame can be used
though. Place the frame where you want it on the page and
then deselect it.
Select the background paper. You will see the dancing
ants around it.
Click on your eraser and change the settings, Shape,
transparency and Soft edge as shown in the screen shot
below.
Screen shot 3
Screen shot 4 Below
Shadow any objects you have added if you wish.
Since I saved all my screen shots as a jpg it does show a
white space where I erased it on the screen shot.
Screen shot 5 below.
Something like the above is what you will have but when
you have it saved as a .png it will be a large file. You
will see a grey and white checked pattern on the png file
where the cut out is for a photo.
This is what you will put in a zip file to share with others
along with your terms of use.
When I have finished my Quick Page and saved it as a png
file, I then resize it so I can use it as a preview and
since this save will be a jpg re name your QP and show
preview in the file name. The largest side being 600 pixels
for your preview.
If you need more information just email me or ask at the
PI-I Scrapbook forum.
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Part 3 To answer this question.
**I am stuck right now on how to cut out a part of a
paper to use for a picture and FRAMES!!! **
I will address this in the morning. In the mean time try
doing it by filling your frame as I instructed above. Be
sure to look at the frame after you get done with the fill
of your paper, at 100% so you can see it clearly as the
paper you used may not work well for your frame. If you
don't like it try a different one by doing the fill process
again.
Lets begin.
You have your quick page as done above up to doing
the fill in your frame. You have a beautiful paper that is
way big so lets say it a freebie one for 12x12 inch sb
pg. At 300dpi it will be huge when you bring it into PI.
Probably 3600x3600 pixels to be exact.
So I just take my frame off of the QP I am working on,
just slide it over to your workspace which will give it a
new box all by itself. Now minus your QP for just a short
time. My frame is 896x907 in size and it is showing at 58%
of it's size. You can leave at the 58% size for now. You may
show a smaller percent size than mine it depends on your
monitor size and I have a newer flat screen now that is big.
Bring into PI the paper you want to use for this frame.
Now you will have the paper showing and your frame there
also but in a different box. Select the paper and RC copy,
go over to your frame and make sure that the frame itself is
not selected, or click on the background which is now white
behind that frame. Go to Edit / Fill and select the same tab
Image folder.
In the area where it says Clipboard click there to put a
dot in the circle showing it is selected. You will now see
the paper you copied in the view screen in that fill box.
Select the Fit the Image and OK. You will have that
background now behind your frame.
You can X out the big paper you used you don't need it
anymore...you can X it out as soon as you R/C copy if you
want to.
RC copy on the area behind the frame then select your
frame. Go to Edit fill and select the fit the image same as
you just did for the background and click ok. Now you have
that frame filled you can pretty much see it and if your
happy with the way it looks bring your QP back up and slide
your frame back onto the QP.
Screen shot 6 below
Doing the frame all by itself and not on the QP will let
you see it better while you work on it and putting the huge
paper on the area or background of where the frame is will
let you use those big papers without too much of a hassle.
When you have a paper that was made at 300 dpi and and try
to put it in an element made at 200dpi it almost always
works when its done this way. If you just try and to use it
doing the process in the beginning where I showed how to
fill by going to the picture on your computer, using the
fill, it will sometimes look strange.
Keep your frame selected...it blends right in to your
background now so hard to see it.
Next Shadow the frame. In the Screen shot below I show
the frame or part of it at 100% size so you can see it here.
I just grabbed any large paper I had on my computer for this
that wasn't a seamless tile. Use the default shadow as below
in screen shot.
Screen shot 7 below.
Now one more thing before you slide your frame back onto
your QP.
On the top bar select Photo/ Focus Select the top row
last one and ok as in the below screen shot.
Screen Shot 8 below.
You will be able to see the difference it made as to the
focus of the paper on the frame now.
Last just keep the frame selected. Where you have your QP
minused you can now bring it back up then take your frame
and slide it back onto your QP. Place it back on the QP over
top the hole being careful to get it place correctly and no
part of the hole space shows.
You can X out the background where you did your frame. If
you have a tag you made for your QP you can fill it the same
way you just did your frame. If you have a header typed
where you have used a fat font that would look great filled
you can slide that off your QP and fill it the same way.
If you have any questions as to how to do something or
if I didn't cover this enough let me know.
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