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

This is not my tutorial, it belongs to Marijke. If you would like to translate into another language, you must ask her permission, not mine. info@marijkepspdesign.nl

For this tutorial you will need:
Jasc or Corel 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, available free here: http://hem.passagen.se/grafoman/plugtool/plugs.html
FM Tile Tools, available for trial or purchase here: http://www.fantasticmachines.com/
VM Toolbox>Motion Trail Wild, available free here: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/plugins/VisualManipulation.zip
Filters Unlimited 2.0, available here: http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/
Gold pattern (if you don't have any, download my small zip file of 3 gold and 2 silver patterns-simple gradients and glitter fills, download here
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/tuts/gold-silver-patterns.zip)
1 picture of your choice. I used "Given to Fly" by James Browne: http://www.jamesbrowne.net
My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here: http://www.icnet.de/filters_unlimited/
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.
I used light yellow green: #D2DD98 and med yellow green: #9F9F5F
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

Repeat blinds, but now check horizontal as well
4. Effects>Filters Unlimited 2.0>Buttons & frames>Glass frame 2 (not 3D Glass Frame 2): 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 and copyrights 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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