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Out of Bounds

Hi, I am here today to explain a very commonly used tehnique in Photoshop, old, but very nice tehnique, for creating out of bound's images. Basicly we are going to take an image and make it look like it's coming from the picture out. It's an very easy tutorial and there is nothing to be afraid of. All it need's is to know how to work with layer mask's and the transform tool (move tool).
OK, let's begin. Open your image in Photoshop, take something that's easy for you or you can just take my image from below:

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Create a duplicate from the background layer and turn the visibility of on the background layer. We are doing this so if we make a mistake we can allways back and create a new copy. Now if you are useing my image, take the wand tool and click on the gray background to select just Raphael. When you select Raphael copy him on a new layer and put it on top of all the other layers.
Create a new layer and put it on top of all the others. Take the Ractangular Marquee Tool and create a ractangle around Raphael. Look at the picture below:

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Basicly create the ractangle how you like your image to pop out from the picture/frame. Now fill it with white color or whatever color you like your frame to be. Next go Select>Modify>Contract....enter 15 pixels. Press delete. This is what you should have:

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Next, take the move tool and transform the frame whatever angle you want, use the perspective and distort options to do that. Here is mine resoult:

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Add layer mask to the duplicated background layer and to the frame layer. On the background layer erase everything outside the frame and on the frame layer erase the parts where you want Raphael to come out. Look at my picture below and you will see what i mean, also it's a good idea to add droop shadow and inner shadow on the Raphael copy layer:

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Allmost there. You can stop here or you can go a step further. Create a new layer on top of all the others, take the gradient tool, make it from black to transparent and draw a line from the bottom left corner to where the Raphael's heel. Then on a new layer do the same but with a white gradient and on the top right corner.
Now create a new layer and put it behind the duplicated background. Select the transformed image selected and fill it with black color. This is our shadow. Take the move tool and transform the shadow layer to make it more realistic. Look at the picture below:

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And that's it. In my final resoult i did the same thing but on a digital photo frame. And here is the resoult:

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