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Open a new image 400 X 300 Transparent

Flood fill with solid black.

Apply KPT 6 Sky effects

Click on the button shown below to  choose the type of sky you want. For this tutorial, I have chosen one of the alien skies.

Your image should look something like this.

Press SHIFT + D to make a duplicate and set the duplicate aside.

Open a picture of you and your sweetheart kissing. If you don't have one..than a picture of someone else kissing...with their permission of course.

Use your selection tool set to rectangle, feather set to 20.

Make your selection where the red line is and it will actually select 20 pixels beyond that.

You may have to try a couple of times to get exactly the portion of the picture that you want selected.

Once you have the desired area selected, press CTRL + C to copy.

Refer to your 400 X 300 image and press CTRL + L to paste as a new layer.

Now use your Magic wand tool, tolerance set to 20, feather set to 0, You may need to adjust the tolerance setting. Click on the background portion of your kissing layer. Press delete. If this doesn't select all of the background, use your selection tool, tolerance set to 0, shape set to rectangle and select small sections of the background at a time, pressing delete with each selection until you have the entire background deleted.

If you look at the image below you will see that there is a blue line around our faces. Here's how to fix that.

Press CTRL + A to select all. Use your selection tool and click on the kissing layer.

The selection will them be around the kissing image.

Selections > Modify > Contract by 1

Selections > Invert

Press delete.

Now lower the opacity of the kissing layer to about 30%.

Flatten your image

Click on your flood till tool and set the background color to a solid color that is NOT in the image. Example..I have no black in my image so I set the background color to black.

Click Image > add Borders. Set all the settings to 10

Use your Magic Wand and select your border.

With the flood tool still activated, set the foreground pattern to the image that you set aside earlier in this tutorial.

While it's still selected. Apply Inner Bevel. The settings below are a suggestion but you can apply the settings that you prefer.

Save your image. You're done.

Thank you for checking out my tutorial. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to email me at:

kim@pixelbit.com

Here is an example of the same image but using a different alien sky. Have fun!