At Sea Frame

You will need the following items:

Corner tube
golden_ivy.jgd
Simple Plug in
I have put these in a zip file for you Here
Put the corner tube in a folder on your hard drive.
Put the golden_ivy.jgd in your gradients file.
Unzip the Simple Plugin into your plugin's folder in your PSP.
Graphic of your choice or you may use the one I am using.
Click on graphic to save to your harddrive.



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I have included my "Little Painter" for you to
take with you to help you keep your place while
doing the tutorial. Just move him down with you
as you go and you will alwaysw know where you are.



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Select a lighter color from your background of the picture for your background color.
Select a darker color from your background of the picture for your foreground color.
Set the golden_ivy.jgd gradient in your background pallet.
These are the colors I have chosen for this tutorial.


Select All
Contract 30
Feather 10
Selection/Invert
Hit your delete key.
Effects/Textures/Fine Leather following settings.



Deselect.

Add border 10
Select with magic wand.
Select you Gradient and find golden_ivy with these settings.
Invert gradient checked



Effects/Inner Bevel and use these settings



Deselect
Add border 20 background color of darker color.

Add border 15 of lighter color.
Select with magic wand
Flood fill with gradient
Effects/inner bevel using the following settings


Effects/drop shadow using following settings



Repeat drop shadow using minus 3 for Vertical and Horizontal offset
Deselect

Select the corner image and select copy from the drop down menu.
Highlight your new image to make it active and paste corner as a new layer.
Resize to 50 percent making sure "Resize all layers" in UNCHECKED.



Effects/Edge/Enhance
Drop shadow using same settings
Move to corner as shown.



Effects/Plugins/Simple/Top Left Mirror



Click OK

Layers/Merge All-Flatten
Resize and Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen
Save as a jpg.


Here is another graphic using this frame.



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