This lessons will let you make your own Designer Edges. I think they are alot like those maskes in PSP, so the ideas are endless. But this is the basic way to make them. First you should download this file
MIX BASIC BLUE FOR 2000-2001
PNG BASIC BLUE FOR 2002-DIP

This lesson was made in Digital Image Pro, but you will find the directions for the other verisons also. Every version except maybe express, can make these. The file I told you to download is a zip file of the basic file you need to make your own edges. It is the right shade of blue that you need your edge filter to be, I took the curl edge filter and just made a rectangle of the same color. In your Designers file in Picture It some of the edges are just corners, but this didn't work for me, so I just make sure that it was the same size as the page curl, which is a pretty large file, but it will do well with large pictures, Im sure for those of you who are very creative you can play around and come up with other ways to make these. I have made edges out of mono frames, colored frames and corners. I did find that you can actually use freehand paint and use different layers of the same color blue paint as the basic file and come up with edges that are softer! So I am guessing that you can probably make stamps or shapes of this color blue, and put them around a large area to make your own homemade edges!
Edges work the same as an x-ray, you need to think of the blue part you want to keep and the white will be gone.

So you now download the zip, open it and save it to your file to your My Pictures folder. I have found that while making edges, you will need to make and play with each one, this means using your folder for your designer edges...alot, so I just went and made a shortcut to this folder on my desktop, saves going through all the files to put and take out edges.
You find an edge you want to make. Here is a simple tree you can download and follow along with me. Big edges like this is actually very easy.
All you actually need to do is cutout the tree and turn it the blue color as the basic file is. To do this in DIP you will...
Open your tree.
Open your basic file.
Select your tree file, which is green and white.
Go to the top and click FORMAT/CREATE A CUTOUT/BY COLOR SELECTION.

With your cursor that will turn into an eyedropper, click in the white area (the tree). Your tree should turn pinkish.

Click next.
When you do, the outline of your tree, the green part will become washed out, that means that this is the part you are cutting out.
Click on IN A SEPARATE PROJECT,

this will make it easier for you, and instead of placing your cutout ontop of the orginal and confusing your, it will make it into it's own window.
Click Done.
Your new window, will look white and empty, but acutally has the white tree in it. Go to the bottom of your screen and drag your blue basic file up, onto your white tree window.
Click on your white tree area, just to unselect the basic blue. Now fill your tree with the basic blue by going to the top and clicking EFFECTS/ FILL WITH TEXTURE OR COLOR.

Click on More solid color choices.

Now click on your basic blue with the eyedropper.

Your tree will fill with the color.

Click done and delete the basic blue file from your tree, by right clicking on the it to your right, choose Delete.
Now you have your edge!
You will need to save it in png format and name it something by going to the top and clicking FILE/SAVE AS.

You now need to place your new edge in your designers folder and try it out on a picture. If when making your edges, you try them out each time you can choose to delete a messed up one and try again, so you don't clutter your designer folder with unwanted edges.

Here is my new edge in use...




FOR ALL VERISONS:

If you don't know where your designer edge folder is, please read my Edge Lesson HERE


PICTURE IT 2000

In PI2000 to make an edge is alot like the above, but you would do the following...
First you download the mix verison of the basic blue file from above. Then you will download the tree graphic zip.
Go to CUTOUTS & PICTURES/CUTOUT OF PICTURE/BY COLOR SELECTION.
Click the tree, it will turn pink.
Click next
Then click Done.
Select your new cutout tree.
Drag the basic blue up from the bottom to the tree.
Make sure the tree is selected (not the basic blue)
Go to PAINT & COLOR EFFECT/FILL WITH SOLID COLOR.
Click on the basic blue with the eye dropper.
Your tree should turn blue.
Click done
Delete basic blue off of your tree
Now save as MIX format and put in your Designer folder and try it out.




PICTURE IT 2001

In PI2001, download the MIX format of the basic blue and the tree frame. Open your program, go to SHOW MY PICTURES & PROJECTS/MY DOCUMENTS and open these 2 unzipped files.
Select the tree, and click CUTOUTS & PICTURES/CREATE A CUTOUT/BY COLOR SELECTION.
Click on the tree, and it will turn pink. Click next and done.
Drag your basic blue up to your tree from the bottom of your work area. Make sure you select the tree, then go to PAINT & COLOR EFFECTS/FILL/MORE SOLID COLOR CHOICES. Click on the basic blue and your tree turns blue. Click done.
Delete the basic blue from your tree. Save it in MIX format and place it in your designer edges file.




PICTURE IT 2002

With PI2002, you will need to download PNG format Basic Blue file and the tree download. Unzip these and save them. When you open your program, go to OPEN & EDGE/MY COMPUTER. Open both of these files.
Select the tree and to cut it out you will go to CROP OR TRIM/CREATE A CUTOUT/BY COLOR SELECTION.
Click the tree, it will turn pink. Then click next and done.
Drag the basic blue from the bottom of your work area onto the white tree.
Go to PHOTO & COLOR EFFECTS/COLOR OR TEXTURE/FILL WITH COLOR OR TEXTURE. Click on MORE SOLID COLOR CHOICES and click the basic blue. Your tree should turn blue!
Delete the basic blue and save in PNG format.

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