You will need
An image of your choice Mine is from Alan Ayres HERE
Simple Quick Tile
Gold or silver gradient
The mask HERE
1: Open your image in PSP Shift D to duplicate.
Resize your image to about 300X400PX.
2: Before we do anything else we are going to make our pattern.
With the selection tool set at square select an area you wish to use for a pattern tile that is about 110X110 in size.
Edit copy.
Edit paste as a new image.
3: Effects, Simple Quick Tile.
4: Set your foreground to a gold or silver gradient. Set your background to the tile you made.
5: Image add borders 1 black.
6: Image add borders 3 white. Select with your magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with your gold or silver gradient. Choose your own settings.
Select none.
7: Image add borders 1 black.
8: Image add borders 3 white. Select with your magic wand same settings. Fill with your gold or silver gradient. Same settings.
Select none.
9: Image add borders 20 white. Select with the magic wand and fill with your tile
10: Repeat steps 5, 6, 7 and 8
11: Image add borders 32. Select and fill with the dark tile. Image mirror.
Leave selected.
12: Layers new raster layer.
Flood with your gold or silver gradient.
13: Layers, load, save mask from disk and apply the maskpspfun16 mask with the following settings.
14: Layers merge, merge group.
Effects, edge effects enhance.
Merge all. Flatten.
Leave selected and apply the following inner bevel.
Selections select none.
15: Repeat steps 5, 6, 7 and 8.
16: Image add borders 37 white. Select and fill with the tile.
Leave selected.
17: Effects reflection effects kaleidoscope with the following settings.
Leave selected.
18: Apply the same inner bevel as in 14.
19: Repeat steps 5, 6 and 7.
20: Add corners of your choice and your watermark, resize if you wish and you are all done.
This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on 7, March, 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.