Ellie's Treasures Paint Shop Pro Tutorials - Fairy Frame
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/psptuts/fairyframepsp/fairyframepsp.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper


For this tutorial you will need:
Corel or Jasc PSP
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
 Visual Manipulation (VM) Experimental filters - Guess What; Cybia Filters - Screenworks - Dot Screen;
Andrews Filter Gallery 4 - Too Many Drinks (Andrew's Filters are at the bottom of that page, below the Filter Factory galleries)
Corners
An image of your choice
No other supplies are needed
I would suggest saving the tag at the top of my tut and keeping it open while you work to refer to for placement.
Open your image, duplicate (Shift-D), and close the original.
1. Activate your image and resize it to no larger than 350 on it's largest side.
If you resize, go to Adjust>Sharpen or Unsharp Mask.
Pick a light color from your graphic for background color. I used #fcfdd3 (a pale lime) for my bg color.
Select a gradient to go with your pic or you can use gold fill
or make the gradient from 2 colors in your graphic, make the gradient your foreground color.
I used BICE Fairylights 3 for the gradient, angle 45, repeats 0.
2. Go to Selections>select all.
Go to Effects>3D effects>cutout with these settings V&H: 0, Op 100, blur 15, color black. Select none.
3. Add border 2 pixels (for this step throughout the tutorial pick any color that will contrast with your picture);
select with magic wand and fill w gradient you picked.
Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic
Add border 2 pixels, select with magic wand and fill w gradient you picked.
Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic
4. Add border, 10 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Select none.
Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic
5. Add border 10 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Leave selected.
Go to effects>Andrew's Filters 4>Too many drinks and use these settings: 10-11-9-72
(if these settings don't give you enough color, play with the settings, but leave the Divider setting at 72. Apply.
Select none.
6. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic.
Add border, 20 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Leave selected.
Go to Effects>Screenworks>Dot Screen.
Leave selected.
Go to effects>Andrew's Filters 4>Too many drinks and use these settings:
10-11-9-72 (or whatever you used in step 7). Apply.
Go to Effects>3D>Inner Bevel, and apply the pillow preset:
W8, Sm 40, D2, Amb0, shin 10, angle 315, int 50, elev20, color white.
Deselect.
7. Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic
Add border 2 pixels, select with magic wand and fill w gradient you picked.
Add border 2 pixels using the light color you picked from the graphic
Add border, 30 pixels, select w magic wand and fill with gradient. Leave selected.
Go to Effects>VM Experimental>Guess What and use these settings:
243-136-0-83-0. Leave selected
Go to 3D effects>Buttonize>Narrow Vertical preset (these settings:
H10, W10, Opacity 70, Transparent edges, color black
8. Open corner of choice. If you have tubed corners, you can open them in PSP
and save as psd file, they can then be used in any graphics program.
Open in PS/PSE, go to Select>All, Edit>Copy>go to your framed graphic and go to Edit>Paste.
To resize the corner, go to Image>Resize>Scale (In PS it's Edit>Transform>Scale).
Drag on the handles to make smaller or bigger. Once you resize, go to Filters>Sharpen.
Hint #1: open the corner tube you like, copy, activate your graphic, paste as new layer,
position to your liking in top left corner, resize and sharpen if you like,
once it is to your satisfaction, go to layer palette, duplicate, Image>Mirror, layer>duplicate,
Image>Flip, layer>duplicate, Image>Mirror. This will position your corners exactly right in each corner.
You can of course use your tube tool, but I prefer to open them and use them in this way.
Hint #2: I plumped up the corners by using the inner bevel preset Deep Beveled on them.
You're done!
Resize if desired, watermark and save (see below for tips)
Resizing
To resize, make sure, to retain the texture and the clarity, resize at 90% bicubic and repeat till you get close to the size you want.
At that point you can resize by pixels as usual. You will find this makes a big difference in your final result.
If you resize, use the unsharp mask or Brightness/Contrast to sharpen it a bit.
Adjust>Sharpness>Unsharp mask at Radius 1, strength 60, clipping 4.
or
Adjust>Brightness and Contrast set to Brightness of 5-contrast of 15.
Watermark & Save
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.
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