You will need

Plugins

Simple Top Left Mirror

Impressionist

An image of your choice

1: Install the plugins if needed and reboot your computer.

2: Open a graphic of your choice. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original. Resize your image to 500 X 380 pixels.

Set your foreground to a darker colour from your image and your background to a lighter colour. Change the foreground to a gold pattern of your choice and the background to the foreground/background gradient with the following settings. All settings will stay the same as first presented unless noted.

3: Image add borders 3 symmetric with a colour not in your graphic. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero and fill with a gold pattern.

4: Selections invert. Selections float and apply the following cutout.

Select none.

5: Image add borders 18. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

Select none.

6: Repeat step 3.

7: Image add borders with the following settings.

Select the 2 borders at each side and fill with the gradient.

Leave selected.

8: Effects, Artistic effects, topography with the following settings.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen more.

Leave slected and apply the same cutout as in 3:

9: Repeat step 3.

10: Image add borders with the following settings.

Select the 2 borders at the top and bottom and fill with the gradient.

Leave selected.

11: Effects, Artistic effects, topography with the same settings.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen more.

Leave selected and apply the same cutout as in 3.

Select none.

12: Repeat step 3.

13: Image add borders 46 symmetric. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.

14: Effects, plugins, Impressionist with the following settings.

Image mirror, image flip.

Leave selected.

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

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen.

Select none.

16: Repeat step 3.

17: Add corners and any other embellishments you require. Add your watermark and save as a jpg.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on March 28, 2010

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 Cody for testing this tutorial.

© D.M.S Creations 2010