Using Photo Editor to get your flourishes to wrap your frame!

I have always like flourishes and cluster frames and have admired how the flourishes seem to wrap around the frames.  So I pondered it and realized just how it easy it is to do in ACDSee Photo Editor.  I did it quite a few times on my calendar toppers that I created in the last few days:

So I am going to show you how:

I have gathered a flourish and photo cluster.

• The flourish (and background paper) is from Petit Moineaux from her Noel kit
• The frame cluster is from Lindsay Jane Designs

and placed them on my page in about the position that I want them.  The frame should sit on top of the scroll.

1. First lock the scroll into place once you have it where you want to.  We are going to layer two scrolls directly on top of each other and I don’t want the bottom one moving.  To do that, click the box next to the eye to lock it.
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3. Now, let’s make a copy of that scroll.   I just make sure the scroll is selected and press Ctrl-C (to copy it) and Ctrl-V (to paste it) and I get this:
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5. Now select both scrolls.  (Hold down the Ctrl key and Select both Scroll objects)
6. Make sure you are using the selection tool.
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8. And choose Align, center vertically & horizontally. 
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10. and it looks like it turns into 1 scroll. It is really 2 scrolls directly above each other.  One is above the frame and one is below the frame.  Just so it’s easier to show you I am going to put in a white square to take the place of my photo.  This is easier to see what is happening when the pictures are already in there.  So the correct layering you should have is, from top most layer down:
1. Scroll
2. Frame
3. Photo
4. Scroll
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12. Its easier to work, so I am going to zoom in on my scroll & frame. 
13. Select the top scroll and select the Polygon Lasso Tool
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15. Then you want to start selecting everything that you don’t want on top of the frame.   The polygon tool allows you to make nice straight lines to match the frame line.  So each click allows you to create a line from the previous point.  If you don’t quite meet, hit Esc key to connect the lines.  And now I have marching ants around the part of the scroll that I don’t want over my frame:
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17. Then simply press the delete key, to delete it.
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19. I also want the tip at the bottom of the scroll to go away, so I use the polygon lasso tool again to select the tip and delete.
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21. I now have a scroll that wraps around the frame.  I can easily put in my photos and finish the page.
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Wasn’t that simple?

The credits for the calendar examples:

I was using ACDSee Photo Manager so the items in the calendars are all from different designers, but here is the list of items you see in my calendar examples:

• Carrie Stephens Vivicious
• Petit Moineaux  Noel
• Wendy Page Swirls
• ksharonkdesigns - sequins
• Barbara Schiefer Snowflakes Paper
• Carla Gibson Good Ole Days Paper
• and the calendar templates & frames are from Penny Springmann

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