Moonlight Embrace

You will need

Photoswizzle plugin

Simple Top Left Mirror plugin

Filters Unlimited

A graphic of your choice

1: Open your graphic in PSP. Shift D to duplicate. Close the original. Resize your copy to 300 wide and 462 high. Your frame may not be the same if you use a different size.

Choose a dark colour for your foreground and a light colour for your background. Then set your foreground to a silver or gold fill and your background to the foreground/background gradient. Angle 45, repeats 3 linear. Invert is not checked.

2: Selections select all. Effects, 3D effects cutout with the following settings. The colour should be a medium/dark one from your image. Select none.

3:Image add borders 6 with a colour not in your graphic. Select with the magic wand feather and tolerance set at zero and flood fill with silver or gold. Leave selected.

Effects 3D effects inner bevel with the groove preset. If you don't have this preset here are the settings. Save this as grove by clicking on the little computer disk.

Adjust sharpness, sharpen more.

Select none.

4: Image add borders 17. Select with the magic wand same settings as before and fill with the foreground/background gradient.

Select none.

5: Repeat step 3.

6: Image add borders 27. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient same settings as before.

Leave selected.

7: Effects artistic effects Posterize with the level on 7.

Leave selected.

8: Edit copy. Selections select none. Paste as new layer. Image mirror.

Lower the opacity on the top layer to 50%.

Merge all, flatten.

9: Selections, select all. Selections modify contract by 27. Selections invert.

Effects, edge effects enhance.

Select none.

10: Repeat step 3.

11: Image add borders 37. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient, same settings. Image mirror.

Leave selected.

12: Effects, plugins, Photoswizzle, Prism + with the defalt settings. Leave selected.

13: Image mirror, image flip. TIP: If you prefer your top and left side before you do step 13 you can miss this one out.

Leave selected.

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

Leave selected.

15: Effects, plugins Filters Unlimited buttons and frames, glass frame 2. Change the top slider to 30.

Select none.

16: Repeat step 3.

17: Add your watermark resize if you wish and save as a jpg image.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on September 21, 2008.

Any similarity to any other tutorial is purely coincidental. No copyright infringement is intended as this is purely for the learning experience gained through creating this tag.

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 2008