You will need

Graphics Plus plugin

A misted tube of your choice

My zip file HERE

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

1: Set your foreground to a medium colour from your tube and the background to a lighter colour from the tube.

Set the foreground to the foreground/background gradient angle 45, repeats 7, style linear. Invert is not checked.

Open the dmspinkbubbles tile from the zip file and colorize to match either your foreground or background colour. Set this as your background. Finally place a gold or silver beads fill in the foreground.

All settings will remain the same throughout unless otherwise stated.

Right now we can get started.

2: Open your misted tube in PSP. Shift D to duplicate and close the original. Delete any other layers that come with your tube except the actual tube layer and resize to around 335X450.

3: Layers new raster layer. Fill with the dmspinkbubbles pattern. Lower the opacity to around 75%. Merge all. Flatten.

4: Selections, select all. Selections float and apply the following cutout.

NOTE: If you are using a dark coloured image set the colour for the cutout as #000000.

Select none.

5: Image add borders 3 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand, feather and tolerance set at zero and fill with the gold or silver beads. Adjust, sharpness, sharpen. Select none.

6: Image add borders 17. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

Adjust, add/remove noise add noise with the following settings.

Leave selected.

7: Effects, plugins Graphics plus, Cross Shadow with the following settings.

Select none.

8: Repeat step 5.

9: Image add borders 32 white. Select with the magic wand.

Layers new raster layer.

Fill with the Fill with the dmspinkbubbles pattern. Lower the opacity to around 75%. Merge all. Flatten.

Leave selected.

10: Apply the cutout as in 4. Repeat cutout once.

Leave selected.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Select none.

12: Repeat step 5.

13: Image add borders 44 white. Select with the magic wand.

Layers new raster layer.

Fill with the dmspinkbubbles pattern changing the scale of the pattern to 50%. Lower the opacity to around 75%. Merge all. Flatten.

Leave selected.

Apply the same cutout as in step 4. Repeat cutout once.

Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Select none.

14: Repeat step 5.

15: Add corners if you wish and your watermark. Save as a jpg and your all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on August 24, 2009. Any similarity to other tutorials 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 2009