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 Luísa

Here the example for this frame...

~ You will need ~

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

Plug-in Filter / Simple
Download do filtro ... Aqui
Open the zip file and install it into your Plugins folder

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

Plug-in Filter / Blade Pro
Download it ... Here
Open the zip file and install it into your Plugins folder

Blade Pro's preset used / nk-shadow and nk-wickedgreen

Download it ... Here

Pages 18 e 39
Open the zip file and install it into Blade Pro's Environment & Textures folder

Download the files used ... Here

Open the files into PSP

~ Instructions ~

1. Open the files into PSP and select your graphic

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

I used: #BD8D7F

For Background choose the white or the black color

2. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

With the select this border

Tolerance and Feather = 0

With the flood fill this border with the Black color

Selections / Invert

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

Selections / Select None

3. Image / Add Borders = 3 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

4. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

5. 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

6. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

7. Image / Add Borders = 20 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Simple / Centre Tile

Effects / Blur / Gaussian Blur

Radius = 15,00

Effects / Noise / Add

Noise = 10% Uniform. Checked

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Flaming Pear / Swerve, with the settings bellow

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

Selections / Select None

8. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

9. Image / Add Borders = 3 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

10. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

11. 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 5

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 = 25 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Blade Pro / nk-shadow

Color / Colorize, with the settings bellow

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

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 = 3 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 = 5 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 5

Selections / Select None

18. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

19. Image / Add Borders = 30 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Flaming Pear / Blade Pro / nk-wickedgreen

Color / Colorize, with the same settings from item 13

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 7

Selections / Select None

20. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

21. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

22. 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

Save 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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