Mosaic Twist Frame

You will need the following for this tutorial:

Graphic of your choice or if you wish to use the one I used right click to save it to your harddrive. Graphic is by Penny Parker.



Fantastic Machines - Paint Engine Here
Corner tube - Here
Unzip Paint Engine into your Plugins folder.

Save these patterns and put in your patterns folder. If you are using PSP7 they are not included.

   


I used PSP8 to do this tutorial but I'm sure it will work in other versions.


Now on with the tutorial !!!

Set foreground to diamond plate pattern. Set background to Geometric 04 pattern. Set background color to white.

Open the graphic and duplicate it. Close the original.

Image/Add Border = 5

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the white border.

Flood fill with diamond plate pattern.

Effects/inner bevel using the following settings.



Deselect

Image/Add Border = 25

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the white border. Flood fill with the Geometric 04 pattern.

Adjust/Hue and Saturation/colorize. Colorize with a color that will go with your picture nicely. For my picture I used Hue-144/Saturation-73.

Effects/Fantastic Machines/PaintEngine with Settings set to "Flakes".



Deselect

Image/Add Border = 5

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the white border.

Effects/Drop Shadow with following settings.



Repeat Drop Shadow using -3 vertical and horizontal

Flood fill with diamond plate pattern.

Effects/inner bevel using the same settings.

Deselect

Image/Add Border = 10

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the white border. Flood fill with the Geometric 04 pattern.

Colorize with a same color settings as before.

Effects/Fantastic Machines/PaintEngine with Settings set to "Flakes".

Deselect

Image/Add Border = 5

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the white border.

Effects/Drop shadow using the same settings. Repeat Drop Shadow using -3 vertical and horizontal.

Flood fill with diamond plate pattern.

Effects/inner bevel using the same settings.

Deselect

Layer/New Raster Layer

Open the corner tube. Copy/paste and resize by 50% making sure that "Resize all layers" is unchecked. Move tube to corner. Effects/drop shadow using the same settings. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance

Deselect.

Effects/Plugins/Simple/Top Left Mirror. This will put the corner tube in all four corners.



Layers/merge visable

On your layer palette duplicate the merged layer twice. You now have three layers.

Selections/Select all. Selections/Modify/Contract 45
(Or the amount to bring it back to the first border around your graphic.)

Selections/Invert

Close bottom two layers, making sure top layer is highlighted.

Effects/Texture/Mosaic-Antique with following settings.



Close top layer and highlight Merged layer. Edit/Clear

Close Merged layer and highlight middle layer



Effects/Distortion Effects/Warp with following settings.




Select none.

With magic wand set at 30, select the corner cutout holding down shift key if needed to make sure the corner is selected.



Edit/Clear.

Deselect.

Effects/Drop shadow with settings same as before with -3 (minus 3 ) in both vertical and horizontal.

Move copy 2 of Merged layer (Top) down between Copy 1 and Merged layer.



Open all layers and Merge All - Flatten.

Image/Add Borders = 5 (Make sure border color is color not in previous border (I used red).

With magic wand selet the new border and flood fill with Diamond Plate pattern. Effects/inner bevel using same settings.

Image/Add Borders = 10

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the new border. Flood fill with the Geometric 04 pattern.

Colorize with a same color settings as before.

Effects/Fantastic Machines/PaintEngine with Settings set to "Flakes".

Deselect

Image/Add Border = 5

With Magic Wand set at 0 tolerance, select the new border.

Effects/Drop shadow using the same settings. Repeat using -3 vertical and horizontal

Flood fill with diamond plate pattern.

Effects/inner bevel using the same settings.

Deselect

Resize to suit and sharpen if needed.

I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial. *S*

Here is other results from the tutorial.






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