This tutorial was made with PSP7 but you can do it with any version

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The graphic used I received from an exchange group

This frame was made in honer to our PSP Friend Kae Wilson

Here the example for this frame...

~ Your will need: ~

Jasc Paint Shop Pro
Download its trial version for 30 days ... Here

Plug-in Filter / Mura´s Seamless
Download it ... Here
Open the zip file and install it into your Plugins folder

Plug-in Filter / FM Tile Tools
Download it ... Here
Open the zip file and install it into your Plugins folder

Plug-in Filter / Eye Candy 3
Download it ... Here
Open the zip file and install it into your Plugins folder

Download the files used ... Here

Open the files into PSP

~ Instructios ~

1. Open the files into PSP and select your graphic

For Foreground choose one color from your graphic and the Gold Pattern

I used: #BEA4A4

For Background choose the black or the white colors

2. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

With the select this border

Tolerance and Feather = 0

With the flood fill this border with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Invert

Effects / 3D Effects / Cutout, with the settings bellow

Selections / Select None

3. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

4. Image / Add Borders = 5 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

5. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

6. Image / Add Borders = 5 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the settings bellow

Selections / Select None

7. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

8. Image / Add Borders = 5 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 6

Selections / Select None

9. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

10. Image / Add Borders = 22 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / Texture Effects / Blinds, with the settings bellow

Effects / Texture Effects / Weave, with the settings bellow

Selections / Select None

11. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

Select this border again and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

12. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

13. Image / Add Borders = 5 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 6

Selections / Select None

14. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

15. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

16. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

17. Image / Add Borders = 27 Symmetric checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Eye Candy 3 / Cutout, with the settings bellow

Layers / New Raster Layer

Flood fill this layer with your color

Masks / New / From Image / jd-mask156

Masks / Delete

Yes

Selections / Select None

Effects / 3D Effects / Drop Shadow, with the settings bellow

Repeat the Drop Shadow 4 times

Layers / Merge / Merge All

18. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

19. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

20. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

21. Image / Add Borders = 5 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 6

Selections / Select None

22. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

23. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

24. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

25. Image / Add Borders = 32 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Mura´s Seamless / Checks, with the settings bellow

Selections / Select None

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-HEIGHT: 100%; MARGIN: 1px 20px; TEXT-INDENT: 20px">Select the spaces with the darker color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss

Apply the default settings

Repeat the Blend Emboss 4 times

Selections / Select None

Select the spaces with the lighter color

Repeat the Blend Emboss 2 times

Selections / Select All

Selections / Modify / Contract

Number of Pixels = 32

Selections / Invert

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Eye Candy 3 / Cutout, with the same settings from item 17

Selections / Select None

26. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

Select this border again and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

27. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

28. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Clicado

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

29. Open the small corner and Edit / Copy

Go to the frame and Edit / Paste / As New Layer

Edit / Copy

Image / Mirror

Edit / Copy

Image / Flip

Edit / Copy

Image / Mirror

Do the same with the big corner

Layers / Merge / Merge All

Salve as JPG and it is done

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial!

If you have any questions, please, feel free to e-mail me

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