This is such an easy tutorial and would be great for someone just starting out using PSP. (Also, it’s my first tutorial I’ve written, so be gentle with me! I’ve been lazy about writing one – all those screen shots. 
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As a newbie to PSP and scrapping, have you ever tried to get a picture in a frame? Do you resize over and over trying to get it to fit perfectly?
Here is a very simple way to get a picture into a frame. Let me start off by saying, it’s easiest if your picture is the same shape as your frame. So, if you’re using a circle frame, use your circle selection tool to select a portion of your picture that you want in the frame. Then, you can follow this tut exactly the same way.
Let’s start out with your picture and your frame.
Now, you want to take your magic wand and select the inside of the frame. (In this case where there are things inside the frame and it wouldn’t select a rectangle, I used my rectangle selection tool and started at the top, putting a little of the frame inside of my selection.
Now, if you used your rectangle selection tool, your selection is already the way you want it to be. If you used your magic want, go up to Selections, Modify, Expand, then Expand your selection by 5. That way your picture fits under the frame like it would if it was in a real frame.
Now, make your restore your photo, or click on the top bar of it to make it active. Either Right Click on the top bar and hit copy or CTRL + C to copy it.
Go back to your frame and add a new raster layer.
Then, right click on the top bar of the frame (making sure your working with your new raster layer, which should already be selected) and paste – into selection.
Next, in your layers pallet either drag your photo layer under your frame layer, or right click on the photo layer, arrange, move to bottom.
Now, all you have to do it go to your layers pallet and merge visible.
There’s your picture inside of your frame! Now to put it on a page, right click and copy or CTRL + C, then paste it as a new layer on the page you are working. As you get more knowledgable in PSP, you can do this whole frame on the page you are working on.
Now, you know you came for a little giftie, didn’t you?
How about the frame that’s in the tutorial above? Do you like it? Do you want it? Oh, ok, I’ll let ya have it!
First, I’d like to say, thank you to Micheline Martin for letting me use all of her goodies on that frame: Twisted Essentials, Flower Essentials, Button Essentials 2, and Stitched up Holes. The Paper Bag Frame was made using my Just Bag It – Combo Pack. If you ever need a paper bag for anything, I’m your girl! You get a smoother paper bag, a wrinkled paper bag, and 2 texture overlays to use on your papers. Available for commercial use!
Now, please don’t give out the download link to your friends. Send them to Scrap Your Art Out to get the goodies themselves!
