We've Only Just Begun

We've Only Just Begun

You will need

An image of your choice

Bordermania plugin

KC-025 mask HERE

Please No scripting

1: Open your image in PSP. Shift D to duplicate and close off the original.

2: Image add borders 3 symmetric. Select and flood with gold or silver. Select none.

3: Image add borders 10 symmetric. Select and flood with a very dark colour from your image. Select none.

4: Repeat step 2.

5: Selections, select all. Selections modify contract by 16. Selections invert.

Effects, plugins Bordermaina Frame 2 with the top 2 settings at 24. Select none.

6: Image add borders with the settings below. Notice we are not adding the borders to all sides so symmetric is not checked.

Select and flood with your dark colour.

7: Add a new raster layer and flood with your gold or silver.

8: Layers, load mask from disk find the KC-025 mask source luminance, fit to canvas and hide all mask checked. Delete the mask layer and merge group. Sharpen twice. Select none.

9: Repeat step 2. Remember here the borders go all around so Symmetric is checked.

10: Repeat steps 6, 7 and 8.

11: Repeat step 2.

12: Repeat steps 6, 7 and 8.

13: Repeat step 2.

14: Image add borders 25 symmetric. Select and fill with your dark colour. Leave selected.

Layers new raster layer flood with gold.

15: Layers load mask from disk KC-025 mask. Delete the mask layer and merge into the layer below. Merge group. Sharpen twice. Leave selected.

16: Effects, plugins Bordermaina with the top settings at 25.

Select none. Merge all.

17: Repeat step 2 one final time.

Save as a jpg image and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on April 10, 2005. Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental.

Written in honour of my dear friend's who have helped made this group a success. Here's to our second year.

Thank you to Cody for testing this tutorial.

Thank you to Karen, from Karen's Creations HERE for allowing me to use her mask.

This tutorial must not be passed through e-mail, groups or by any other method without written permission from myself. Please No scripting.