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Tutorials: Out of Bounds (OOB)

Written by  Vanessa Pike-Russell
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Tutorial : Out of Bounds - taking your photo out of bounds

How I created my 'valentines day gerbera with a heart of chocolate' image.

Earlier I photographed the gerbera I purchased yesterday against the black armchair. I merged a photo of the chocolate heart (red) into the centre of the gerbera daisy and added a black background. Now I'm going to use Adobe Photoshop CS2 to create a frame and erase part of the frame to show parts of the photo appear to be 'out of bound'.

merging photos

The image we are going to OOB.

(Full size version is available for download from fotolia.com)

gerbera with heart of chocolat eby vanessa pike russell

Add the frame - notice the right hand side petals is hidden behind the frame.

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What to do? Well, it's easier than you think. Just select the original layer and copy the area that you need to be visible over the top (below)

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And then your photo is starting to appear 'out of bounds'.

gerbera heart

Then if you want you can delete the bottom part of the original layer so that the gerbera stem disappears and crop to the dimensions you want.

gerbera merge

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Vanessa Pike-Russell

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