Santa's Rest

You will need

Bordermania plugin

Graphics Plus Plugin

Simple Top Left Mirror

My zip file HERE

Please respect those who made the files enclosed and do not change the file names

1: Open your image. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original.

2: Set your foreground to the dmschristmasred gradient. Angle 45, repeats 3 style linear. Invert is not checked.

Set your background to the gold fill.

3: Image add borders 3 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gold pattern. Leave selected.

4: Effects Bordermaina frame 2 changing the top 2 settings to 3.

Select none.

5: Image add borders 14. Select and fill with the gradient. Leave selected.

6: Adjust add/remove noise, add noise, Gaussian 10 monochrome is checked.

Leave selected.

7: Effects, plugins Graphics Plus Cross shadow default settings except change the intensity to 60.

Select none.

8: Repeat steps 3 and 4.

9: Image add borders 24. Select and fill with the gradient same settings.

Leave selected.

10: Effects texture effects polished stone with the following settings

Leave selected and apply the following inner bevel.

Select none.

11: Repeat steps 3 and 4.

12: Image add borders 37. Select and fill with the gradient same settings.

Leave selected.

13: Layers new raster layer.

Flood with the gold.

Leave selected.

14: Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Find the dmschristmashollymask and apply with the following settings.

 Merge group.

15: Effects, edge effects enhance.

Layers merge, merge down.

16: Effects, plugins Simple Top Left Mirror.

17: Apply the same inner bevel as in 12.

Select none.

18: Image add borders 6. Select and fill with the gold.

19: Effects plugins Bordermania Frame 2 changing the top 2 settings to 6.

20: Add corners if you wish and your watermark and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on November 16, 2008.

Similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this frame.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself.

Thank you to Chris for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2008