how to add a frame to a Photo | Adding Filters

Filters are used to change the appearance of an image, layer or selection in Photoshop. In the Filter Gallery, you can browse through many different types of filters, apply them individually to your image. We'll see how to create a beautiful photo frame. Mainly I'm using filters to create this frame and some layer effects like emboss...

First you should select a canvas. 

Go to File ---> New 

Set the following values

• Width           - 6 inches
• Hight            - 3 inches
• Resolution   - 200 pixels/inch
• Color mode - RGB

Layers Palette

Layers palette is the most important palette in Photoshop. Actually we can't do anything without Layers palette. So here I'm going to explain about it. As I mentioned above Layers palette is the Grand Central Station for managing layers. So I recommend to read this carefully because this is the base of the Photoshop. Layers palette helps us to select objects separately. In Photoshop we can add selections to objects directly which are in separate layers. To do that press and hold Ctrl and click on the layer. Normally Layers palette is positioned on the right bottom of the Photoshop interface. You can see it like this. It will be blank if you do not have any layers in it.

Pen Tool And Selection Tools

    Pen tool is a popular tool in all graphic designing softwares. Because it is the only tool that can draw custom shapes. You can see another four options with the pen tool. They are very useful to edit the object which you have drawn. The It is used to draw custom shapes on a image or a file. In the pen tools palette there are five different options. They are,

• Pen Tool
• Freedom Pen Tool
• Add Anchor Point Tool
• Delete Anchor Point Tool
• Convert Point Tool

There are few more things to know before start using the pen tool.