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Sony Forums Challenges | all galleries >> Challenge 32: Holiday Decorations (hosted by Helen Betts) >> Challenge 32 Holiday Celebrations Gallery > Family Treasures
by Ann Chaikin
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12/18-20 Ann Chaikin

Family Treasures
by Ann Chaikin

Home in Bellingham

Decided to do a composit of some of the heirloom ornaments in our family. From the top: 1940s Santa, two eggs I made at age 14. Middle row: handblown ornament from the 50s, wartime ornament and handblown owl from the 40s, another 40s ornament. Bottom: egg ornament by me at age 14 and two egg ornaments by my brother Steve at age 7. (I am a bit fuzzy now as to which eggs were mine and which were Steve's.) Steve, who is now 53, turned out to be an artist. Take a look at his aquatint etchings. Used Photoshop to create the window frame.


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Sony Forums Challenges31-Dec-2002 01:26
Thanks a lot for the help, Ann...I will surely experiment with these instructions...neat, something new! The only time I've ever used a "layer" is with a drop shadow ...I'm fairly ignorant at that.:) Thanks, MFC
Sony Forums Challenges28-Dec-2002 21:47
Mike et al: here's how you do this. Decide in advance how many images you want. In photoshop create a new image that is equal to the size it would take to hold all the images. Open each image and resize it to fit in the space you want to have it occupy. (EG: make a 1600 X 1200 new image and put four 800 X 600 images into it to make an array of four equal sized images in your composite.) Click on the move tool and drag the resized image onto the new image. Close the original image without saving it so you don't accidently make it smaller. Open, resize and move each new image. Each one will be on a different layer. To make an inner frame, creat a new layer on top of it all and create rectangles along each intersection of the images. Create a new layer on the bottom and increase the canvas size to create space for an outer frame. Cut out the middle of this layer just inside the edge of your images if you want to make a frame with bevels on both the inside and outside of the frame. You can use layer style on the frame layer and the inner frame layer to create bevelled edges as I did this one. Hope this helps. :) Ann
Sony Forums Challenges23-Dec-2002 02:05
Ann, This is a nice holiday composite...something I don't know how to do...and you've done some very nice ones. MFC
Sony Forums Challenges21-Dec-2002 16:06
You're doing some really nice work, Ann. I agree, this would make a really nice Christmas card! Helen
Faye White21-Dec-2002 02:14
Nice work with the framing Ann. These are very special treasures. You should make this your Christmas card (next year) -faye