Modify Frame Color

Posted by Don Vawter on January 28, 2025

Let's modify the appearance of a wood grain frame. The plugin applies layer styles to a frame when you create it. One particularly useful one is color overlay.

It is initially set to 0 opacity but it can be modified to change the appearance.

Here is our created frame.

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Here are the initial values of the color overlay. Notice that the opacity is 0 which means the overlay has no effect.

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Let's darken the frame by increasing the opacity.

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We can also change the color of the overlay. You probably want a low opacity or it will overwhelm the original.

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This technique let's you produce frames of different colors but similar grain. If you use a very high opacity you will effectively hide the grain which you can do if you want a solid color frame.