SilverBorderFrame

For this tutorial I used art of Penny Parker.

Take a look at her site !!!

What do you need for this tutorial:

PSP 7.04 30 day trailversion

A pretty picture of your choice.

A great dingbat for the corners.

I used DesignerCorners.

SilverGradient for the pattern.

Visual Manipulation Filter

Open the zip and extract it into you plugins folder of PSP.

I'm offering this filter because the orginal author, Mario Klingmann,

no longer has any site where he offers it for download.

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Let's get started:

1. Take your picture and open it in psp, also open the SilverGradient.

2. Put your backgroundcolor on a color that is not in your picture and

your foregroundcolor on pattern, search for the SilverGradient, scale 100%.

3. Image > add borders > 5 pixels, symmetric.

4. Take your magicwand, tolerance and feather 0.

Click in your added border and floodfill it with the gradient.

5. Effects > 3D effects > dropshadow:

Color: Black

Horizontal and Vertical: 5

Opacity: 100

Blur: 5

6. Repeat step 5 but then horizontal and vertical -5.

7. Image > add borders > 15 pixels, symmetric.

8. Take your magicwand and select the added border.

Floodfill it with the Gradient.

9. Effects > plugins > VM Toolbox > Zoom Blur.

10. Repeat step 3, 4, 5 and 6.

11. Image > add borders > 20 pixels, symmetric.

Select the added border with your magicwand and floodfill it with the gradient.

12. Repeat Step 9. 

13. Effects > Texture effects > Mosaic Glass:

14. Repeat Step 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Selections > select none.

15. Take you text tool and a pretty dingbat to creatie nice corners.

I gave the dingbats a dropshadow as in step 5.

  16. Your frame is ready, you can resize it to your need, but

do not forget to sharpen it after resizing !!!

Have fun with this tutorial !!!

FanatasyDreamWorld Designs

This tutorials is written by Inge Bruggeman july 15th 2003.

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