Fireworks create the black and white artsy shots effect of the roll edge

Content Overview

Today we're going to make a black-and-white art photo with a roll-edge effect, where we take a picture of a color art that was originally taken and place it in a document picture of a page effect. The knowledge points involved are: Rectangular tool, some selected tools, linear filling, effect, image fading and so on. Through this example, the reader should have a basic grasp of the strong nostalgic meaning of the black and white art photos with the effect of the method.

First look at the contrast effect:

　　

01. Create a file of size 500x400 in fireworks MX 2004, use the Rectangle tool on the toolbox to draw a rectangle of size 370x480, set its stroke to 1 pixel soft, and stroke size 1, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Drawing a rectangle

02. Select the rectangle, right-click the mouse, and select Ungroup in the pop-up menu. Then select the Pen tool on the toolbox and add two anchor points to the top right corner of the rectangle to make the edge effect, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Adding anchor points

03. Click the Subselection tool on the Toolbox and drag the anchor point in the upper-right corner of the rectangle, as shown in Figure 3.

Figure 3 dragging anchor points

04. Then set the stroke color to #cccccc in the transformed Path's property panel, select a linear fill in the Fill option, and fill the color from #cccccc to #ffffff, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 Linear padding

05. Drag the filled joystick to make it vertically gradient, as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 5 Adjusting the control lever

06. Select Shadow and glow projection from the effect menu of the property panel, and set the projection property as shown in Figure 6, where the projection color is #cccccc. Get the image shown in Figure 7.

Figure 6 Projection Properties

Figure 7 Projection Effect

07. Select the Fill Path object, grasp Ctrl + C then CTRL + V copy, in its properties panel, remove the gradient fill, and then set the projection effect in its effect as shown in Figure 8, to get the image shown in Figure 9.

　　

Figure 8 Changing the projection properties

Figure 9 Image after the path is copied

8 Draw a triangle in the upper-right corner of the image using the pen tool to get the edge effect, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 10 Drawing a triangle

9 Select the triangle, select Shadow and flare inner Shadow from the effect menu of the property panel, and set its properties as shown in Figure 11, where the shadow color is #CCCCCC to get the edge frame image shown in Figure 12.

Figure 11 Inner Shadow properties

Figure 12 Roll Edge Frame

10 The next step when the frame is made is to import the photos and make the Black-and-white photos of the artistic effects. Select File Import to open the Import dialog box, from which you can select a photo image that you want to import, as shown in Figure 13.

　　

Figure 13 Importing Images

11) Click the "Open" button, click in the image using the mouse, the image is imported, where the photo image is larger than the image we made, as shown in Figure 14.

　　

Figure 14 Importing images

12 Use the Zoom tool to adjust the image to the appropriate size so that it matches the edge of the border, as shown in Figure 15.

　　

Figure 15 Resizing the image

13 Select the imported photos, select command "creative" "Convert to Grayscale image", and convert the photos to Black-and-white photos, as shown in Figure 16.

Figure 16 Converting to black-and-white photos

14 Select "Command" "creative" "Image fade" to open the Image Fade dialog box, from which you can select an elliptical fade, as shown in Figure 17.

Figure 17 Selecting Image Fade

15 Click the "OK" button to get the image that adds the fade effect as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18 Adding an image after fade

16 Click the Text tool on the toolbox, add text to the photo appropriately, set its properties as shown in Figure 19, and get the image shown in Figure 20.

Figure 19 Setting text properties

Figure 20 Adding text

17 in the property panel to modify the text color white, and add a projection effect, and finally get figure 21 in the black and white art photos, is not very contagious ah?

　　

Fig. 21 Black and white artsy shots