For this tutorial you will need:


PSP 30 day trial version here
Flaming Pear's Designer Sextet - Silver 1.0 demo version here
Simple Filter here
Ulead Art Texture here
FM Tile Tools here
Eye Candy 4000 here
Supplies here


1. Open the image. Shift + D twice to make two copies and close the original.

2. On the first copy: Effects - Plug-Ins - Flaming Pear - Silver using these settings:

3. Effects - Plug-Ins - Simple - Quick Tile.

4. Effects - Plug-Ins - FM Tile Tools - Blend Emboss using the default settings.

5. Right click on the layer palette and promote to layer. Minimize this copy.

6. On the second copy: Image - Resize to 70% as bicubic resample..

7. Selections - Select all. Effects - 3D effects - Inner Bevel with these settings:

Bevel: Round
Width: 6
Smoothness: 42
Depth: 2
Ambience: 2
Shininess: 9
Light Colour: white
Angle: 315
Intensity: 66
Elevation: 22

8. Set your background color to white. Image - Add borders - 3 - Symmetric checked. Select it with your magic wand.

9. Effects - Plug-Ins - Ulead Art Texture. Edit - Palette 5. Pattern sample - the third one.

10. Choose a color from the image and set it as foreground color. I used #63545D. Change your flood fill options as the following screen shot:



Flood fill the border.

11. Selections - Invert. Effects - Plug-Ins Filters - Eye Candy 4000 - Cutout - Matte Cut, color black. Deselect.

12. Choose another color of the image and set it as background color. I used #8CA6BA. Image - Add borders - 5 - Symetric checked.

13. Repeat steps 8, 9, 10 and 11.

14. Edit - Copy. Edit - Paste as a new layer on the first copy.

15. Selections - Select all - Selections - Float. Highlight layer 1 and hit delete. Deselect. Effects - 3D Effects - Inner Bevel using the same settings as in step 7.

16. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).

17. Set your background to a color that's not in your image. I used #FF00FF. Image - Add borders - 3 - Symetric checked. Select it with your magic wand. Flood fill with white.

18. Repeat steps 9, 10 and 11.

19. Open the Corner.psp file provided with this tutorial. Edit - Copy. Go to your framed image: Edit - Paste as a new layer. Place the corner using your mover tool. Effects - 3D Effects - Drop shadow: Vertical and Horizontal 0, Opacity 100, Blur 4.9, color black. Sharpen - Sharpen

20. Layers - Duplicate. Image - Flip - Image - Mirror.

21. Layers - Merge - Merge all (flatten).



I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.