How to Use Photoshop for MySpace

Photoshop can be used in a variety of ways to enhance your MySpace page. One of the most fun things to do is to create a mini-poster using one of your photographs and displaying it on your MySpace page. Photoshop helps you alter your photographs by changing colors, inserting words or phrases and adding borders to create fun graphics for your MySpace page. All it takes is a few easy steps to create your own personalized mini-poster in Photoshop and add it to your MySpace page.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Photograph
• Scanner
• Adobe Photoshop
• MySpace account
• Computer
• Internet connection

Create a Mini-Poster in Photoshop

1. Scan your photograph and save it on your computer.

2. Open Photoshop and upload the photograph into the program by choosing “File” from the top menu and clicking “Open.” Browse through your files until you find the photograph and double-click on it to open it.

3. Click “Filter” from the top menu and choose “Artistic.” Choose a style such as “Film Grain” or “Cut Out” to give your photograph a graphic effect and double-click on the effect.

4. Create a new layer by choosing “Layer” from the top menu and choosing “New Layer…” and clicking “Okay” in the pop-up box.

5. Click on the “Rectangular Marquee Tool” on the main tool bar.

6. Click on your photograph and position the rectangular marquee about an eighth of an inch along the inside of you photograph to create a border.

7. Click “Select” from the top menu and click “Inverse.”

8. Choose a border color from the color palette and double click.

9. Click the “Paint Bucket” tool from the main tool menu on the left-hand side of the workspace. Position the paint bucket icon in the border area and click to fill the space with color.

10. Create a new layer by choosing “Layer” from the top menu and choosing “New Layer…” and clicking “Okay” in the pop-up box.

11. Click the “Horizontal Type” tool from the main tool menu on the left-hand side of the workspace. Click on the area of the photo where you want to insert text and create a text box by dragging your mouse. Choose the text font, color and size from the main tool menu. Click in the text box and writer your message.

12. Click “File” and choose “Save” to save your mini-poster for MySpace. In the pop-up box, write the mini-poster’s name in the “Title” box. Open the “Format” box and choose JPEG or GIF. Click “Save.”

Add Your Mini-Poster to Your MySpace Page

13. Upload your mini-poster to a free photo-hosting site on the Internet (see Resources below). Copy and save the image code URL.

14. Log into your MySpace account.

15. Click “Edit Profile.”

16. Insert the mini-poster’s image URL into the “About Me” box.

17. Click "Save."

Resources

• Free photo hosting