
Photoshop Elements 3 Down & Dirty Tricks238
Photo Mount Effect
Here’s a handy technique for creating visual interest by adding photo mounts to the corners of your images. This is popular
with wedding and travel photographers, as well as photo retouchers. What’s nice about this is that once you’ve created one set
of mounts, you can save the layered file and use them again and again. Plus, at the end of the effect, there’s a pretty cool back-
ground texture you create from scratch.
STEP ONE: Create a new document in
RGB mode (the one here is 6x4"). Create a
new blank layer by clicking on the Create
a New Layer icon at the top of the Layers
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