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Decorating a photo with a frame
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You can decorate a photo you took with your digital camera with a frame and show it to visitors to your Web site. In addition to adding a frame, you can retouch your digital photo or apply an effect to it.

This section contains the following topics:


Pasting a digital photo

To paste the image file of a digital photo onto the WebArt Designer's edit field, do the following.

Note Note Before doing the following operation, you must have imported the image file of a digital photo into your computer or other media such as a floppy disk, MO disk, and so on.


  1. Select Paste File from the Edit menu.

  2. On the displayed dialog box, select an image file in your computer or other media, and click the Open button to paste the image.

    Pasting a photo

Tip Tip You can paste image files in such formats as GIF, JPEG, BMP, TIFF, FlashPix, and Photo CD onto the edit field of WebArt Designer. [Ref.] "Image file formats"



Retouching a digital photo

A photo taken with a digital camera might be dark-colored or fuzzy. You can retouch the brightness and contrast of the photo as follows:

  1. Click the icon icon to display a dialog box for retouching the brightness and contrast. The image you selected is displayed in the center of nine of the same image but with slightly changed brightness and contrast:

    dialog box

  2. Click the image that you think is best.

    Tip Tip Because a photo taken with a digital camera might be dark-colored or fuzzy, it is recommended that you select the bright and high contrast image in the upper right.

    If you select the Preview check box, the image in the edit field changes according to your selection.

  3. If the image is satisfactory, click the OK button.

    If you want to redo, click the Reset button to return to the original state and obtain the optimum state by dragging the Level slider or by reselecting the image. After you click the best image, click the OK button to change the brightness and contrast.


Applying an effect to a digital photo

Effects change your digital photo dramatically. To apply an effect to your photo, do the following:

Tip Tip If you want to retain the naturalness of the digital photo, you do not need to apply an effect.


  1. Click the Effect icon icon to display the Effect Palette for selecting one of the effects.

  2. Click the Preview button to view how the selected image changes if each effect is applied to it.

    Effect pallet

  3. Double-click an effect button to apply it to the selected image in the edit field. The following figure shows an example when the Emboss button is double-clicked.

    Emboss

  4. Click the Close button to apply the effect.

    If you want to redo, click the Undo icon icon to return to the original state, double-click another effect, and click the Close button.


Adding a frame

To add one of the sample photo frames to your digital photo, do the following:

Tip Tip You can also create a photo frame using the wizard that starts when you click the Create photo frame icon icon.


  1. Click the Frame tab at the lower left of the main window to display sample photo frames provided by WebArt Designer.

    1. Select a frame, drag it, and drop it onto the photo image in the edit field.

      Photo with a photo frame

  2. If you want to change the frame size, drag one of eight white square marks to change the size as you please. If you want to replace it with another frame, click the frame using the right mouse button, select Edit Object from the pop-up menu, and select another frame in the displayed dialog box.

Tip Tip To save the photo image with a frame in a file, see "Saving a lettered button" and do the same operation. You can paste the file onto the edit field of TopPage, as you do with other images.