Daisy

You will need

An image of your choice

Gold beads pattern

Plugins

Funhouse

Fantastic Machines Paint Engine

Simple Top Left Mirror

1: Set a darker colour from your image as the foreground and a lighter colour as your background.

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

Set your background to your gold beads pattern angle 0 scale 100.

All settings will remain the same unless noted.

Your finished frame will vary slightly from my original depending on the size of the graphic used. Mine is 450X400.

2: Open your image in PSP. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original.

3: Selections select all selections float and apply the following cutout.

Select none.

4: Image add borders 4 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with the gold beads pattern.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

5: Image add borders 17. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient. Select none.

6: Repeat step 4.

7: Image add borders 2. Select and fill with the gradient. Select none.

8: Repeat step 4.

9: Image add borders 28. Select and fill with the gradient. Leave selected.

10: Effects, plugins, Funhouse, Twister. Move the slider to 128. Apply. Leave selected.

11: Effects, plugins, Simple, Top Left Mirror.

Leave selected.

12: Apply the same cutout as in 3.

Select none.

13: Repeat steps 6, 7 and 8.

14: Image add borders 40. Select and fill with the gradient. Leave selected.

15: Effects, plugins, Fantastic Machine's Paint Engine with the following settings.

Leave selected and apply the cutout as in 3. Select none.

16: Repeat steps 6, 7 and 8.

17: Add corners or embellishments of your choice, add your watermark and you are all done.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on June10, 2009

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.