It’s Thanksgiving here in the States and I don’t have much planned. We’re actually painting a spare bedroom and then eating obscene amounts of mashed potatoes and onion dip! 
I live life on the edge, I know!
I was going to post all the things I’m thankful for this year, but I realized what might be MORE fun is to show you guys that I’m thankful for YOU with a really (lame) and simple first freebie! If you haven’t noticed, I’ve started framing my photos on here in a very easy little Polaroid-y border (without the fat bottom like traditional Polaroid images). If you’ve got Adobe Photoshop, you can nab my layered PSD image by clicking here and use it to frame your images as well! It’s set to frame 600×400 pixel images but feel free to adjust as needed!
01. To use this, simply open it up in Photoshop. You’ll see that the frame border layer is called, “Polaroid Border,” and it hovers above the “Background” layer.
02. Once you have your 600×400 image ready, just paste it into the file. You’ll notice it puts your image on top of both the “Polaroid Border” and “Background” layers.
03. To fix this, just use your mouse to select the “Polaroid Border” layer. Hold your mouse down to drag it above your image’s layer so that the “Polaroid Border” layer is first before anything else.
04. Now that it is showing as needed, go to your “File” drop down menu. Select the option called, “Flatten Image.” You should see that you’re left with just one layer. Good! Now you can save as a .jpg and use your image like normal!
Hope you like it! The only thing I ask is that you credit me on your site for it and only use it for personal use — no commercial uses, please!
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Oh but this means I actually need to put my Blackberry down to blog. :-p
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