Chris

You will need

Filters Unlimited II

FM Tile Tools

Simple Top Left Mirror

My graphic was used with permission from Alan Ayers HERE

1: Open your image in PSP. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original. Resize your copy if necessary.

2: Place a darker colour from your image in your foreground and a lighter version of that colour in your background. Change the foreground to the foreground/background gradient angle 45 repeats 3 invert is not checked. Place a gold gradient or pattern in your background.

3: Image add borders 2 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand, feather and tolerance set at zero and fill with gold.

Selections invert and apply the following cutout.

Select none.

4: Image add borders 2 in your darker colour.

5: Image add borders 3 with a colour not in your image and fill with gold.

Select none.

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

Leave selected.

7: Adjust, add/remove noise, add noise, uniform, 10 monochrome is checked.

Select none.

8: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5.

9: Image add borders 27 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

Leave selected.

10: Effects, plugins Filters Unlimited II, Special Effects 1 Square Bumps with the default setting.

Leave selected.

11: Effects, plugins, simple Top Left Mirror.

Leave selected.

12: Apply the following inner Bevel.

Leave selected.

13: Effects, plugins FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss.

Select none.

14: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5.

15: Image add borders 38 with a colour not in your image. Select and fill with the gradient same settings.

Leave selected.

16: Effects, plugins Filters Unlimited II, Lens effects, broken glass with the following settings:

Leave selected.

17: Effects, plugins, simple Top Left Mirror.

Leave selected.

18: Apply the same inner bevel as in 12.

Select none.

19: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5.

Add corners if you wish, save as a jpg and you are all done

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on April 28, 2009

This tutorial was written for my dear friend and tester Chris. Thank you for just being you.

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.