471 Framing a photo with a custom brush

Hey, gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…You may recall, last week I showed you how to create…what's known as a custom dual brush inside Photoshop.…And then I showed you how to texture that brush in…order to create this effect here.…Well this week, we're going to take that same textured…brush and we're going to use it to paint a…custom frame around a photograph.…And we're not going to do so using the standard brush tool.…You can if you like, but instead we're going to take a…more disciplined approach and paint around a path outline.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…

All right, here's the final version of the photograph…set inside of a clipping mask frame that I…painted using a custom brush.…I'll go ahead and switch over to the original…flat image which comes to us from the Fotolia image library,…about which you can learn more and get deals at…fotolia.com/deke.…I want to move this image to it's own layer while leaving…the background intact, and the easiest way to do that is to…