I’m working on creating more styles and I need your thoughts. What sort of frames would you prefer ? Would you like the matt included in the frame styles or seperate matt styles ? would you like soft shadows or more pronounced shadows or none at all ? Would you prefer patterned styles or basic wood styles or metal or all types ? Should I have seperate categories for frame types or just mix them up ? Your voice will be my primary path. Thanks.
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I’m working on creating more styles and I need your thoughts. What sort of frames would you prefer ?
Jodi,
I’d like to see some matt styles that would be separate but could be combined with frames. Otherwise, I’d just say, have at it, we’ll all obviusly benefit.
Jodi, i would like to see the matte included with the frame style. as for the frame type, i like all differant types, wood, patterns, metal etc. seperate categories would be nice but for me anyway, that isn’t really nessacary
I find it much easier if there are separate categories for frame styles … so that they are easier to find. As I love natural things wood is my main choice … but rich polished woods are the ones I like best.
Jodi, I’d like separate mattes and frames, too. I haven’t had good luck with the ones that are "packaged"! Besides, I’ve always like the "mix and match" thing. 🙂 Glad to see you’re at it again!
thank you all for your comments. The consensus appears to be seperate matt styles with seperate categories for frame styles. Will do the best i can to please. Thanks again.
OK, after much trial and error I’m afraid I cannot make the mat styles as ‘seperate’ styles. They will have to be in the same option with the frame styles. However, I will put them at the bottom of the list which should make them easier to find and use. Sorry ;(
There are also some Actions for creating mattes in PSE 2 by Bud Guinn that are included in this free download found here <http://www.geocities.com/rnlnero/PE2stuff2.html> from Ling’s Things , these appear under Bud’s Action Central, in my ‘How to’ palette, as I have the Richard Lynch Hidden Power III as my Welcome Screen…I’m big into these add-ons! :-). They can be adjusted as the Action runs or the color of the matte can be changed afterwards by double clicking on the Hue/Sat adjustment layer.
I had Bud’s frames as well as other add-ons from Ling’s Things on the How To palette, but when I installed Hidden Elements from the book CD I lost them. Anyone know how I can get them back?
Have you tried re-executing snapActions.exe? On my Win98SE installation it is located in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Elements 2\HTMLPalettes\Recipes
Yes, I tried that first, Byron. And all of Ling’s files are in their place in the Photoshop Elements\HTMLPalettes\Recipes folder. Funny thing is, the new files from the CD are not under HTMLPalettes, they’re in the Photoshop Elements 2\Recipes folder.
I think what I’m going to have to do in uninstall the Ling files, which will be a pain, and reinstall them from scratch. I’ll hold off and see if anyone else has a solution this evening. I should also go check the forum for Hidden Elements.
I was just using those frames yesterday, so I know they were there and working fine. I just got Richard’s book today and installed the Hidden Elements 2 files.
I have a couple of sets of frame styles ready. the wood ones are not available yet but have metallics and basic painted/contemporary type. If you’re interested drop me a line. I’ll be very busy this weekend but will try to keep up with my mail and check on it when I can. Please be patient with me 😉
I’m sorry but i cannot share my wood frame styles. I had forgotten that creating styles using patterns makes for monstrous file sizes( I have dial up and one single wooden frame style is 1mb ! )and so all i have available at the moment are metallics and painted/contemporary type frames. Please forgive me ;( I do have plenty of other layer styles as well so feel free to drop me a line for a request and I’ll let you know what I have or what i can do. ’03-’04…winter indoor sports for Jodi ! ….again, i am sorry
Try to zip them and let me know how big they are. I could deposit one file at a time, for a week say, on my private web site. You’d have only one sending to do (to me) and people could download it from my site directly (no webpage, only the a direct link like pages.infinit.net/carbone/jodi_wood_frame.zip).
Hi Jodi and all, This would be awesome for me and my Mac! Try as I might, I cannot get the Hidden Powers to work, even tho I finally got them inside my computer, so I gave up on them. (That is another Mac sad story, they work fine on PCs.)
I will love to learn how to use your frames or anything that you have made. Thanks, Ray for offering to make the Mac downloads. I know I am a bit beyond my ability trying to use these great new tools, but I sure will try! This stuff is new to me, but it sure looks great! Jane
I sent Ray the styles today and he agreed that the wood frame set was way large as far as mb’s so he’s figuring out a plan to seperate them a bit. I also told him it was no rush and that I truly appreciated his help in this. I also gave him the metallic frame styles and the other type neat frames which both have the mats included ( seperately ). The mat styles are actually ‘inner glows’ that can be adjusted with the cursive ‘ f ‘ option on that layer….was not able to add a shadow to an inner glow but I’ll give you a quick tip on how to make the mat look realistic with a beveled edge look and slight shadow;>on a new layer just above the frame layer make a rectangular marquee selection around the edge of the inside of the mat>stroke>3 to 6 pixels ( depends on your image resolution )center>black>multiply 55%…then deselect the stroke layer and use the gaussian blur on it at a low setting…very cool and real looking ! The frames can be made larger or smaller by using the ‘scale effects’ option in the toolbar under ‘layer’>layer style>scale effects. Anyways, hope you like them. The wood frames were tricky since i had to use ’tile’ on the patterns so that the edges wouldn’t show….they aren’t your typical conventional wood frames…a wee bit weird ( some )so don’t expect glamour with them ;).
I’ve seperated the layers styles in two groups (they are 5MB compressed, 8MB uncompressed). Group one will be up untill Sunday. Group two will be up Sunday morning (or when I woke up, depending on the activities on the preceeding evening..!)
When I said I would make the thing available for Mac as well, I meant the compression. I don’t know if PC created layer styles will work on a Mac.. You’ll let us know if you have problems, I still have a few tricks up my sleeve.
Write to me if you require assistance or if the download doesn’t work. My ISP isn’t really geared for commercial and heavy traffic, so you might encounter slowdowns at times. But, I have high speed internet access, and I am ready to e-mail those of you whose ISPs can support 2MB or more files attached to e-mail.
Jodi’s optional metallic layer style will be uploaded on Sunday as well.
Ray, wow ! You are the man !!! Looks great ! THANK YOU !!!! <kisses> BTW Beth tested my metallic frame styles on her Mac and they worked fine so hopefully the wood ones will co-operate. You also don’t have to wait t’il Sunday for the metallics and contemporary frame styles…those aren’t big and I can mail them to you direct. Just click on my name up here for my e-mail address. Thank You Ray !
Thank you Jodi and Ray, I have downloaded them, (Mac,) unzipped and installed and used one already. Wonderful. I think the gods of beginners have jinxed Hidden Power tools for me. But these of yours took me less than 10 minutes to actually have a picture done and framed! You guys are the greatest! Ever think of doing a book? Jane
Thanks for everyone …especially Ray !! 🙂 The wood ones aren’t so great but I’m happy with my other 2 frame sets…don’t forget to download those when Ray posts them or just mail me for them.
OK, there always has to be one. I d/l Jodi’s styles and when I tried to use them, I got the message. "Could not load styles because file is not compatible with this version of Photoshop.
I have PSE1 and Windows XP. Have d/l other things but this is first time this has happened.
I still have PSE 1 on my laptop and checked it out. Yes, they do work nicely. You do have to have the background layer simplified before a frame will install. Did you do that?
Jodi uses PSE 1 and Photoshop 6.0, so it shouldn’t matter which she used to create them.
When first bringing in an image to PE it is called a ‘background’ layer. Frame styles will not work on this sort of layer. Double click on that layer and a pop up will appear asking you to name the layer then click OK. Now it is an editable layer and the styles should work.
Charles, I do not understand the message you are receiving though. This would happen if I created the styles using the new engine which I did not. Please keep me posted on this. It baffles me.
Please let us know the specifics of your machine (free space on hard drive, memory, etc). Also, if you could post a printscreen of the error message, I’m really curious about this message.
Ray, I have a Dell 4500 series, Pentium 4, 256 DDR SDRAM. 14GB used and 60GB free. I do not know how to attach a picture here so I put it on the web page I use for Eclectic Academy classes. It is at <http://chasm30.tripod.com>. Look for a page called "Screen shot for Ray"
I just played around again, and I noticed one thing about your screenshot that might be significant. In that screenshot with showing the error message, you have a transparent layer highlighted. I can’t account for the error message you’re getting, but have you tried applying the style with the background layer selected? When I tried to recreate what you had, I didn’t get an error message, but I couldn’t apply the style to a transparent layer either; I had to have the background layer selected.
Let me hop in here and join Wendy and Jane in praising you people.
I truly know only one other forum that has so many helpful, friendly people – and that’s a compliment.
I just downloaded Jodi’s frames for my PC and it went without a hitch. Thanks, Raymond. How neat. I have Winzip and don’t know how anyone operates without it.
Jodi, I’m glad you mentioned the cursive F. Ha ha. I was searching for it last night and finally discovered it. I had thought it was a picture of the top of a screw – where you place the screwdriver. lol Oh, it’s fun learning.
Just to make sure, you did uncompressed them, right ?
It’s as though the transfer got corrupted or that your computer can’t handle something all others can. You can’t load the layer style in Elements… Rename the layer for something shorter (like jodi001.asl). Or download them again, and make sure to remove the existing one before decompressing the new download. Report back.
I had to load the style and break it in two groups, so they transited in PS7 for a short time… But then, all others running PSE1 would have had the same results (sorry guys, I’m thinking loud…).
Ok… do you have high speed internet access ? I could send you the complete style over e-mail, zipped as I have received it. Your ISP must accept 5mb attachements. Else, I could send them one a time, uncompressed. Let me know. I might not be on-line tomorrow evening (beer with the guys) If it’s the case, I’ll be back on Saturday morning. With a headache 😉
is it possible a reset prefs would clear up the error ? Other than that maybe some marbles got left in the playground from the download as Ray suggested. If all else fails mail me and I’ll send you the wood frame styles direct and you can delete the ones you installed and start over.
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