Sometimes, certain photo effects grab your attention to the point of mesmerizing you. That’s pretty much what happened when I saw the Curl Border effect, as illustrated below:
If you like this effect, let me tell you how you, too, could create this kind of visual beautification (in my humble opinion):
1. Go to the Photoscape web site.
2. Click the Free Download tab to get to the Photoscape download page.
3. Download and install the latest version of Photoscape. (At the time of this writing, the latest version is 3.0.)
As far as I can tell, there’s no adware, no malware and no kind of annoying reminder or marketing message associated with this incredible photo editor. The good folks from Photoscape would appreciate a donation, but they are not being obnoxious about it.
As soon as you have Photoscape installed and opened the photo to which you want to apply the Curl Border, start your timer.
With the Home tab selected (next to Object, Crop and Region), click on the frame effects drop-down and select Curl Border.
Stop the timer. You’re done.
Yes, I know, the topic of this blog entry could probably be somewhat misleading if you’re a die-hard Photoshop whiz who wants to manipulate every single pixel by hand…then again, why would you want to do that when you could just fire up Photoscape and let it do the hard work for you?
Just for fun, click CONTROL-Z to undo the effect you just applied to your photo. Then scroll all the way to the top of the frame effects drop-down (No Frame) and select that option. With the focus still being on the frame effects drop-down, press the down-arrow key on your keyboard to step through one effect at the time. Each effect gets applied individually; you won’t be adding effect onto effect onto effect, etc. Doing this will give you a great idea of what’s possible within Photoscape.
Of course, there’s so much more that you can do with Photoscape, for example, take screen captures, batch-process photos, resize and rename photos, print photos, combine and merge several photos into one…and much, much more.
Note: Currently, Photoscape is only Microsoft Windows compatible (Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/Vista).
PS: The photo used in this blog entry was repurposed from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/imageservices/. The name of the photo is Happy Mother’s Day from the Powerhouse Museum. The photographer is Paula Bray. To the best of my knowledge, using the photo for educational purposes should bnot violate the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0.
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