Subtitles of the Movie

Welcome to this lesson of creating the effect for the Out of Boundary Photo Project. I have my sample file open and I want to talk through the different layers in the Layers Palette. I have them all on right now so you can see the finished effect which is the lion inside the frame but his nose and part of his head sticking out and reaching up. That part is located on this top OOB Layer. That's a duplicated layer where I deleted everything but what I wanted sticking out and then I placed it above the frame. Next comes the frame and its shadow on separate layers. Underneath that is what I call my in frame picture, below that a background that I've selected just to present it in a nice, clean look. Underneath that is my original photo. So the effect basically involves creating duplicate layers, working with them one at a time depending on where they stand in the frame, creating the frame and then erasing around the part that sticks out. Let's open up the actual photo and get started. First I'm going to promote the background layer, what that does is when I insert the frame it's going to create transparent areas outside of the image instead of solid color. And now what I'm going to do is choose Image, Picture Frame and select the frame I want to use, select OK to put it in the file. Now at this point clearly it's not OOB anything, what I have to do is manipulate the frame to reduce it in size and shape. What I do is I choose the pick tool and you can see how the icon changes to a little, looks like Massachusetts or something. If you hit the Shift Key a few times it's going to take it back to Scale Mode and then what I do is I just scale that frame down to the size, shape I want. I might have to elongate it in one of the different directions so that it's customized to the content I want to present. So in this case I'll move it around, I'll get a good idea of what I want within and what I want without of the frame. So that's pretty good right there. Now what I'll do is going to duplicate this bottom raster layer twice, I'm going to call this in frame, I'll duplicate that once, call that OOB. Now I can turn on OOB and not really worry about it. What I'll do for the Picture Frame is go to my magic wand tool, you could use the other selection tools, doesn't matter, I'm going to select outside of the picture frame on the picture frame layer. This gets all this extra material outside of the frame, then when I will select the in frame layer, press Delete, that's going to delete the extra photo from outside. If you want to, you could zoom in or not, use your other selection tools to get even further into the frames, so there's absolutely nothing hanging outside; however you want to do this. Just want to make sure that we don't have any photographs sticking out on this layer. Our OOB Layer is still there and its an effect. So what I can do is drag that above the picture frame. Well you'll notice that I just lost the frame. What I need to do is drag that back, go to my freehand selection tool and I'm going to drag around the lion, the part that I want sticking out and do this by kind of the reverse process. I select what I want sticking out and then invert that selection making sure that OOB layers selected here and press Delete. Now I can select none, now I can drag the OOB layer on top of the picture frame and you can see with the extra that I will delete now you can see its sticking over the frame. So at this point all I need to select my eraser, choose a size, zoom in a little bit. I like on the first pass or two to go with a 100 percent hard brush so that I have nice, clean borders and then just go to the process of whittling down the size and then I reduce the hardness to zero as I continue, can keep zooming in and after a few passes I will have achieved a really nice, clean border around that lion's nose. It's important to keep reducing the size of that eraser as you get closer because that's going to give you a nice, tight line around it. You can also use a mask on this layer, be total effective to hide everything else. I tend to use the eraser for something like this. Alright I think we can wrap this lesson up. That is how to create the effect in the OOB Photo Project.