No not a new style, just trying something out and hope to get some advice.
I am glad you like it......;-)

Regards,

Maybe some image inside the frame in place of the dark grey. Good looking Damsel Fly.

have fun,

bert

Thanks for the TIP, will work on it....
Wish I could make one like you did, still looking for a good tutorial.....;-)

regards,

Donald Bryant wrote:
> Maybe some image inside the frame in place of the dark grey.
>Good looking Damsel Fly.
> have fun,
> bert

Fons van Swaal. wrote:
> Thanks for the TIP, will work on it....
> Wish I could make one like you did, still looking for a good tutorial.....;-)
>
> regards,

I used a brute force approach. I put everything on seperate layers, the image, the outer matte, the inner matte, the shadowed cut edge of both mattes, the lit cut edge of both mattes. I used a lot of vertical and horizontal guides to create the mattes and the cut edges from solid fill layers by snapping rectangular marquees to the guides. I used masks on each of the layers to punch holes for the image to come through by drawing with a pen at high magnification and then converting the path to a selection. I save the selections thoughout the process and feather them at 1 pixel. By subracting selections from the matte and edge cut layer masks you let the image come through. Lastly based on a suggestion from Sergey, I loaded, moved and subracted some of the saved selections to create the drop shadows from a black fill layer with its opacity set to 25%. It was really just trial and error. If you know your way around Photoshop, you'll figure it out.

bert

Thanks again Bert ,
I will put your comment on my desk as a guideline...
Don't know if I can make a frame like you did because that one is very special, I will try and see how far I can get.
My know how of Photoshop is not that great , I am still in a learning fase... But I keep trying......and have lots of fun doing it..

regards,

wow Fons you did it! nice!

:)
Very nice, you made it! Perhaps it is not all 10 technically - very close though, but I can see you had some good inspiration going. Excellent!

I have not seen any new posts from you; how is that deal with the new camera going?
-

This is my first try-out, and far from perfect.....;-)
It gives the idea of a 3D that I liked .
All was inspired thru a picture from Donald.
Thanks to Donald we also have some link's to tutorials....so let's go to work....

Have fun and best regards,

--Fons


Marco Lazzeri wrote:
> wow Fons you did it! nice!
>

Very nice Fons, I also like the "out of bounds" processing you applied. Very good.

on this "Out of Bounds"trial, I am still working on it to get it perfect.
Takes a while before you get it all 100%....;-)

Best regards and Happy Easter,
-


Wim Westerhof wrote:
> Very nice Fons, I also like the "out of bounds" processing you applied. Very good.

It works for me.

bert

You have done an excellent work on this Photo!!!
Very sharp , creative and attractive.
Regards
Bruno

Hello Fons.
This is not my stile of photo but i must tell you that you made a hugh work on this one. Congratulations.
Best Regards.

Donald Bryant wrote:
> It works for me.
>
> bert
>

I am glad you like it...

Regards,

Bruno Nardin wrote:
> You have done an excellent work on this Photo!!!
> Very sharp , creative and attractive.
> Regards
> Bruno
>

Although it is not you style, I am pleased with your comment....

regards,

Pedro Afonso wrote:
> Hello Fons.
> This is not my stile of photo but i must tell you that you made a hugh work on this one. Congratulations.
> Best Regards.
>

very, very nice and a very good job you have done here! I love it!!

Best regards Kim

for the comment on to Escape...
I am very pleased that you like it.

Best regards,