APOGEE PHOTO MAGAZINE: Let's Get Digital

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Let's Get Digital Photo Art Lesson 3: Faded Edges How you mount your image and what kind of edge you select has a profound effect on the outcome of your final photo art. In this lesson I will show you the basics of a faded edge. As soon as you get the hang of it, experiment with numerous possibilities in order to find your style of edge. Below you will see one style of a faded edge.
	Note: There is a great Plug In available for creating edge effects from *Auto FX: Photo/Edge*
	1- Select your image and create a backup layer. 2- In order to create a space around an image, the easiest trick is to crop out. (reverse of crop in.) 3 - Choose your cropping tool and make a selection around the image. (Left photo.)
	4 - Drag the nodes out as shown on the image and click to confirm your command. Notice a new white space around your image. Note : Make sure your color palette is loaded with the default colors of a black foreground and a white background.
Cropping out will create a white frame..	5- Make a selection inside your image as you see above. 6- Choose *Select---Feather---(feather radius from 25 to 30). 7- Select --->Inverse.* Now part of the image and border has been selected.
	8- Make sure you have a white color in the foreground *Edit----Fill. You should get a similar effect as shown on the image on the left. Note: For a faded image edge mounted on a black background, load black as your foreground color. Then Edit----Fill*
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