Today’s cameras, like many zoom lenses, make the edges of the picture disappear so the edges become invisible. Any photographer, who has ever printed the pictures himself using a darkroom, knows that when printing the photos there is a choice to print the image without cropping, creating those dark rough looking edges. Today we are going to teach you how this is created using Photoshop, in just ten easy to follow steps.

1. select and load the picture of your choice and select the entire canvas by pressing “A+Control”. After this is done you can start cutting out the image by pressing “X+Control”.
2. Create a new file. Photoshop uses the size of the image in the clipboard as the new file’s size. Ensure you have selected white as your background, then press the enter button so the new file is created.
3. Hold down V+Control in order to place the copied image in the newly created file. After this is successfully done use the marquee tool to draw a box around the copied image, but make sure never to touch the edges of the window.
4. click on “select”, in order to get to the “modify” menu, and from there select “Feather”. Use this tool to make the corners just a little rounder.
5. Again click “select”. This time to get to “refine edge” in order to edit the corners, cleaning them up. While doing this make sure contrast is set to 100 percent.
6. Make sure your image is the layer which is selected and click on “layer” and in the menu select “layer mask”, and in the sub menu select “reveal selection”.
7. Press Control and hold it down, while left clicking on the new layer mask, in order to once again get the right selection, and from there click “select”, in order to get again to the modify sub menu, where you select expand. As a value you put in “2″ and click the ok button.
8. Make a new layer, and place it under the layer for the image. At this point your Marquee tool should still be selected, and if it is click inside the selection, using the right mouse button, where you can select fill in the menu that appears. Use this tool to fill the selection and after this hold down “D+Control”, in order to deselect it.
9. Make a copy of your new layer. With one of these layers selected, click on “Filter” and select “Blur”, in the submenu select “Radial Blur”. Select all new layers by pressing and holding down Control and left click with the mouse on the layer palette, then hold down “E+Control” in order to merge the layers.
10. Last click on “edit” and select “transform”, and in that submenu select “warp”, in order to generate a wavy effect, in order to make it seem less flattened. Be subtle about it though, or you will get straight dark lines.

M.A.H.

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