Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop Pro Translated Tutorials - Corine Frame

http://www.ellies-treasures.com/marijke/corine-psp/corine-psp.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper



Translated with permission from the creator, Marijke at Marijke PSP Design tutorial site.
http://www.marijkepspdesign.nl/
See the original tutorial here for PSP in Dutch
http://www.marijkepspdesign.nl/Corine.htm

For this tutorial you will need:
Jasc or C
orel Paint Shop Pro. I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP XI.
I believe it can be done in most versions. You may have to look around for the commands but it's likely they are there.


Filters and materials needed
Alf's Border FX; FM TileTools; VM Toolbox>Motion Trail Wild; Filters Unlimited 2.0
Gold pattern (just check your patterns or gradients folder and open the file up in PSP)
1 picture of your choice. I used "Garden Daydreams" by Arleta Pech
Marijke's terms of use, click here, scroll down for the English
http://www.marijkepspdesign.nl/voorwaarden.htm
1. Make your picture 350 wide or high, put your background pattern on gold,
and pick two beautiful colors from your picture, one light and one dark.
2. Image>Add Borders>2 pixels, fill with gold
(use a contrasting color in making the border, pick with magic wand, and fill with flood fill tool),
1 black, 3 your light color, 1 black, 2 filled with gold
In total this will be 5 borders
3. Image>Add Borders>15 your light color
Select with magic wand
Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds: W2 - O 60 - light from top/left checked - color light
4. Repeat blinds, but now check horizontal as well
Effects>Filters Unlimited 2.0>Buttons & frames>Glass frame 2 (not 3D Glass Frame 2):
put sliders on 64 - 64
Deselect
5. Image>Add Borders>2 filled with gold, 1 black, 3 your color, 1 black, 2 filled with gold
6. Image>Add Borders>25 your color,
Select with magic wand
put your color palette to gradient: Angle 45 - Repeats 7 - linear,
fill your border with the gradient
7. Effects>VM tool box>Motion Trail Wild (in my Filters Unlimited,
it was in a folder called VM Stylize) with the default settings,
keep selected
8. Effects>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default settings
-1, -1, .250, 64, last three at .938
Effects>Filters Unlimited 2.0>Buttons & frames>Glass frame 2: put sliders on 64 - 100
Deselect
9. Image>Add Borders>2 filled with gold, 1 black, 3 your color, 1 black, 2 filled with gold
10. Image>Add Borders>30 your color
Select with magic wand
Effects>Alf's Border FX>Mirror Bevel: 128 - 64 (default)
Image>Mirror
Deselect
11. Select your outer edge with magic wand
*note: maybe because of the colors I picked but the magic wand would not stop selecting partially inside the frame,
so I used my Freehand selection tool set at point to point to select the pink area.
Effects>Texture Effects>Blinds: W 2 - O 60 - light from top/left checked - color light
12. Repeat blinds, but now check horizontal as well
Effects>Filters Unlimited 2.0>Buttons & frames>Glass frame 2: put sliders on 64 - 100
13. Image>Add Borders>1 pixel black
You're done.  If you reduce the size, make sure you use your unsharp mask at 1-64-4.
Watermark
Layers>New raster layer. Add your water mark on this new layer
Layers>Merge>Merge all (flatten)
Save
File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20.
If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html  Have a wonderful day!
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