Fakin' It - Polaroid Transfers That Look Real

Step 15 Using The Border : Adding your photo in-between

Now you're ready to use it with any photo however every time you use it you will have to paste your desired image into the Polaroid frame. Make sure when you paste the photo in that you move the layer so that it is just above the background layer.

Once you have it lined up right choose the SAVE AS command to save so that you don't overwrite your template file.

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[wmcewen]

Instead of pasting the photo into the layer, use the Place command under the File menu. This insets the inserted image, giving you handles (as in Free-Transform) allowing you to scale that image. It also puts that image on a separate layer, and makes it a Smart Object. Use the Save As command and keep a copy as a PSD. When reopening the file to use another background image, select the layer the background image is on, go to Layer > Smart Object > Replace and then choose a new file to insert into the old space. Use the Save As menu to do this over and over.

*IF* you want to erase part of the new background image (to trim it to fit) you will need to rasterize it first (its a Smart Object, and therefore unable to be erased as such) by going to Layer > Smart Object > Rasterize