Cate

You will need

Fantastic Machines Paint Engine

Mehdi Melt 1.1

Simple Top Left Mirror

An image of your choice

Gold or silver beads pattern

PLEASE NOTE: End results will vary slightly due to size of your image.

1: Open your image in PSP. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original for later use.

2: Set your foreground to a dark colour from your image and the background to a medium/light colour.

Set the foreground to the foreground/background gradient with the following settings and your background to the gold or silver beads pattern.

3: Okay now we can get started.

Image add borders 1 in your dark colour.

4: Image add borders 3. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero and fill with the silver or gold beads.

Leave selected.

5: Adjust, sharpness, sharpen. Sharpen more.

Repeat sharpen more once.

Select none.

6: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5.

7: Selections select all, selections modify contract by 7 and apply the following cutout.

Select none.

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

Select none.

9: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5 twice.

10: Image add borders 27. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

Leave selected.

11: Effects, plugins Fantastic Machines, Paint Engine with the following settings. I have this saved as folds. I don't know if this is a setting that came with Paint Engine or one I saved myself.

Leave selected.

12: Effects edge effects enhance more.

Leave selected.

13: Apply the same cutout as in 7.

Select none.

14: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5.

15: Image add borders 37. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

Leave selected.

16: Effects, plugins Mehdi Melt 1.1 with the following settings.

Leave selected.

17: Effects, plugins Simple Top Left mirror.

Leave selected.

18: Effects, edge effects, enhance.

Leave selected.

19: Apply the same cutout as in 7.

Select none.

20: Repeat steps 3, 4 and 5 once then step 3 once more.

21: Add corners if you wish, add your watermark resize if needed and save as a JPG. You're all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on June 1, 2009

This tutorial was written for my dear friend Cate. 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.