Okay, so in the last tutorial, inkjet transfer stamping, I said I would post another tutorial on how I made the frame brush. I know there must be about billion different ways to do this in PS, but this is how I went about making mine. Also, this will give me a chance to show off my screen-capturing skeels which several readers have been kind enough to teach me how to do that. Thank you! (If you don’t know on a Mac it’s Cmd-shift-3 for a screen capture and Cmd-shift-4 for a selection). Okay, so here goes:

Make brushes to make your frame brush I just made some foliage brushes by capturing some nature outside. I just walked to the mailbox and back and got some pretty nice shots. So first, open your photo.

Resize the images to a manageable size using your crop tool or going to Image>Image Size. **Remember, a brush must be no bigger than 8 inches in height or width at a resolution of 300. ** Then, apply threshold to the pic which converts the image to solid black and white. Go to Image>Adjustments>Threshold and then adjust to your liking.

Then, define as a brush by going to Edit>Define Brush Preset.

Repeat these steps to make several brushes from your various nature photos. Then, save the set of brushes by opening the Preset Manager. Go to Edit>Preset Manager. Select brushes in the drop down and then select the brushes you just made and click Save Set.

Now, finally we are ready to make the frame brush! Hippee!

Open a new file. I made mine 8 by 8 inches at the 300 DPI.

Make a selection. Select the Marquee tool and then make a rectangle that leaves plenty of room around it. Then select the inverse by using the shortcut Command-Shift-I.

Load brushes. First, make sure that your default brushes are loaded by selecting the brush tool and then, clicking on the brush selection drop down menu at the top menu bar. Then, click on the small triangle in this brush selection tool window. Then select the Reset brushes from this menu. Click append to add the default brushes to your brush selection.

**Also, make sure that the custom brushes you made are available. To load them, select Load from the same drop down menu shown above.**

Select a basic brush with a texture that you like.

Trace around the inverted-selected rectangle.

Stamp custom brushes. Use custom brushes like stamps, placing images around the traced frame. Rotate the brushes by selecting Window>Brushes and then selecting Brush Tip shape in the left menu. Hold down the shift key while turning the arrow to turn incrementally.

When you are satisfied with the brush, define it as a brush the same way you did with the custom brushes.