Lost In Thought

Lost In Thought

You will need

Cybia ScreenWorks plugin

Graphics Plus plugin

Filters Unlimited

Simple Top Left Mirror

An image of your choice or use the one in the zip file

My zip file HERE

1: Open your image in PSP shift D to duplicate. Close out the original and duplicate the copy once. Minimize for later use.

Set your foreground to a medium colour from your image and the background to a lighter colour. Set the foreground to a gold pattern and the background to gradient. Find the foreground/background gradient. Set the angle at 45, repeats 1 linear.

3: Image add borders 3 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand tolerance and feather set at zero. Fill with gold. Leave selected.

2: Effects, plugins Cybia ScreenWorks Chain Link default settings. Adjust sharpness, sharpen.

Selections invert and apply the following cutout.

Select none.

3: Image add borders 15. Select with the magic wand, fill with the gradient. Leave selected.

4: Effects, Graphics Plus Cross Shadow with the following settings.

Select none.

5: Image add borders 3 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand tolerance and feather set at zero. Fill with gold. Leave selected.

6: Effects, plugins Cybia ScreenWorks Chain Link default settings. Adjust sharpness, sharpen. Select none.

7: Image add borders 33. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient leave selected. Add a new raster layer. Flood the selection on the new layer with gold.

8: Layers, load/save mask, load mask from disk. Find the 57msk and apply with the following settings.

Merge group.

9: Effects, 3D effects drop shadow with the following settings.

Select none. Merge all, flatten.

10: Selections select all, selections modify contract by 33. Selections invert.

11: Effects plugins, Filters Unlimited, Buttons and Frames Glass frame 1. Move the top slider to 33 and apply.

12: Repeat steps 5 and 6.

13: Image add borders 40. Select with the magic wand. Maximize the copy of your image. Click on the bar at the top, copy, back to your working image, paste into selection. Image mirror.

14: Effects, simple Top Left Mirror.

15: Effects plugins, Filters Unlimited, Buttons and Frames Glass frame 1. Move the top slider to 40 and apply.

Select none.

16: Repeat steps 5 and 6.

17: Open the dmslostinthoughtcorner. Click on the bar at the top, copy. Back to the working image. Paste as a new layer. Position in the top left corner. Add the following drop shadow.

Adjust, sharpness, sharpen more.

18: Effects, plugins, Simple top left mirror. Merge all, flatten.

Resize if you wish and save as a jpg image.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on March 20, 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.