Halloween Frame

You will need

Plugins

Bordermania

Mehdi Fur

Filters Unlimited

Simple top left mirror

A graphic of your choice

1: Open your image in PSP. Duplicate and close the original. Resize your image to 445 wide and 338 high. Your results may not be the same if you use a different size.

2: Set your foreground colour to black and the background to a medium colour from your image.

Set your foreground to the foreground/background gradient. Angle 45. repeats 3 style linear, invert is not checked.

Set your background to a gold or silver pattern.

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

Select none.

4: Image add borders 2 with your medium colour.

5: Repeat step 3.

6: Selections, select all. Selections modify contract by 8. Selections invert.

7: Effects bordermania frame 2 with the default settings but put the top 2 settings at 8. Select none.

8: Image add borders 14 with a colour not in your graphic. Select with the magic wand and fill with your gradient.

Select none.

9: Repeat steps 3, 4, 5 and 6.

10: Image add borders 27 with a colour not in your image. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient, same settings.

Leave selected.

11: Effects, plugins Mehdi fur. Put both sliders at 35.

Leave selected.

12: Effects, plugins, Simple top left mirror.

13: Effects, plugins Filters Unlimited, buttons and frames, glass frame 1 default settings.

14:  Repeat steps 3, 4, 5 and 6.

15: Image, add borders 37 with a colour not in the image. Select with the magic wand and fill with the gradient, same settings.

Leave selected.

16: Effects. plugins, filters unlimited, buttons and frames kaleidoscopic frame (rectangular) with the following settings.

Leave selected.

17: Effects, plugins Filters Unlimited, buttons and frames, glass frame 1 default settings.

18: Image add borders 3. Select with the magic wand and fill with silver or gold.

Select none.

19: Apply your watermark and corners if required. I have not added corners as it seems busy enough without them. but the choice is yours.

20: Resize if required and save as a jpg. You are all done.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

This tutorial was written by Diane M. Stanley on October 1, 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