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Welcome to this lesson on choosing the right frame for our OOB Photo Project. I have one of my OOB Files open, you can see the aircraft here and I've pretty much completed it but I've left the background transparent. You can see the role the frame plays, it's a very important role, it bounds the area of the image that you want to present but it also then is hidden by the part that comes out of the photo. Artistically you might have different criteria for choosing the type of frame that you want to present. You can select frames that contrast with the subject matter or agree or are similar in color or tone or texture. The sky is really the limit. I'm going to close this image out and open up my lion. To choose a frame simply go to the image, Picture Frame Menu and when you select that you can see the Picture Frame Dialog Box appear. On the top left side is where you choose the frame, click on this Down Arrow and you can see all the frames available in Paint Shop Pro pop up with small thumbnails and their name. To select one, click it. You can see its thumbnail is updated in the Picture Frame Area and you can see a preview on the right. And this is where your artistic sensibility comes in, what's going to match the subject matter you're working with, what kind of effect are you trying to present? Take your time and look through all the frames to find just the right match. Photo Frames, Mattes, other effects, that's pretty cool, I like that. Now the other thing to remember is you're not just framing the picture, you're trying to cerate an out of boundary frame project. So for this particular photo I have found this frame is the one I like the best. You can change the orientation, certain options over here I keep them as shown, frame to canvas and outside of the image. For reasons you'll understand in the next lesson if you want to click OK you can get basically a preview of this to see how well it fits with the image that you've chosen and I think this fits pretty well. It's got the nice tan and brown colors which fit with kind of a Africa Theme, I didn't want something childish or children's oriented. I didn't want something slick and modern so I think this fits really well. I like the ragged photo paper border which we'll see doesn't present any problem at all with the OOB. On the outer edge though what I will do, I'll open up this and show you is shrink this frame down to create the effect and then create a solid color background which then can be cropped later so that it presents a nice, square photo. Alright once you apply that if you don't like it simply Undo, go back to your Image Picture Frame Menu and choose another one, just experiment, stained glass OK. There, again this is not an example that I would choose, just showing you different types of effects. I'm going to go back and choose one of the photo edges, edges oval, OK. That's very creative too, the only problem with this type of frame is a certain point we're going to scale it down and have part of the subject appear to come out of the frame. So you want to keep that in mind, how that's going to look and how you want to do that. I don't think we would have too much of a problem here. Because essentially what we're talking about then is creating another layer so the line extends up and through the border. Alright I think we can wrap this lesson up, you should now be able to choose a frame to go with your OOB Photo Project.