You will need
My zip file HERE
Please respect those that made the contents and do not change file names
1: Place the pattern in your patterns folder and the mask in your masks folder.
Set your foreground to #4b3921 and your background to #b68f66. Then set your foreground to
the sde_patterngold angle 0 scale 100 and the background to the foreground/background gradient angle 45 repeats 5, style linear. Invert is not checked.
Settings will remain the same unless noted.
2: Open your image in PSP. Shift D to duplicate and close the original.
3: Selections select all, selections float and apply the following cutout.
Select none.
4: Image add borders 1 #4b3921.
5: Image add borders 3 white. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero. Fill with the sde_patterngold. Select none.
6: Repeat step 4.
7: Image add borders 17 white. Fill with the gradient.
Leave selected.
8: Adjust, add/remove noise, add noise with the following settings.
Select none.
9: Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6.
10: Image add borders 27 white. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient.
Leave selected.
11: Effects artistic effects Topography with the following settings.
Leave selected.
12: Effects, edge effects enhance.
Leave selected.
13: Apply the same cutout as in 3.
Select none.
14: Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6.
15: Image add borders 40 white. Select and fill with the gradient.
Leave selected.
16: Layers new raster layer. Fill the selection with the gold pattern.
Leave selected.
17: Layers, load/save mask. Load mask from disk. Locate the SNFrame31 mask and apply with the following settings.
Layers, merge, merge group.
18: Effects, edge effects enhance.
19: Merge all, flatten and apply the same cutout as in 3.
Select none.
20: Repeat steps 4, 5 and 6, add your watermark and you are all done.
This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on August 8, 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