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

This page has lots of graphics, please be patient to load it

The graphic used is from: ma_Pittarelli_Teri2

This frame was made in honer to our PSP Friend Marina

Here the example for this frame...

~ You 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 / Two Moon
Download it ... Here
Open the zip file and install it into your Plugins 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: #7B7D65

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 Gold Pattern

Selections / Invert

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

Repeat the Cutout effects

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 = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

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 the Gold Pattern

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 = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

9. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

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 = 10 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

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

Repeat the Inner Bevel effects

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 = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

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 = 20 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Two Moon / RotoBlades, with the settings bellow

Effects / Plug-in Filters / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss, with the default settings

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

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 = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

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 = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

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 = 25 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

Effects / Plug-in Filters / Mura´s Seamless / Stripe of Cylinder, with the settings bellow

Effects / Plug-in Filters / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss, with the default settings

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 15

Effects / Plug-in Filters / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss, with the default settings

Repeat the Blend Emboss effects

Selections / Select None

22. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

23. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

24. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

Selections / Select None

25. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

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26. Image / Add Borders = 5 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

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

Selections / Select None

27. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

28. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

29. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the withe color

Selections / Select None

30. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the black color

Selections / Select None

31. Image / Add Borders = 30 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with your color

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

Effects / Plug-in Filters / FM Tile Tools / Blend Emboss, with the default settings

Repeat the Blend Emboss effects

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel, with the same settings from item 15

Selections / Select None

32. Image / Add Borders = 1 Symmetric Checked

Select this border and flood fill it with the Gold Pattern

Selections / Select None

33. 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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