Note:

 This Tutorial has been made for fun.. No Infringement of Copyright intended.

This Tutorial comes about from me playing with ideas. Any similarities to other

tutorials is purely not intentional.

 

Intermediate to Advanced

 Written for PSP 9

 

You will need

 

Gregs Filter Factory 2.0

Silver or gold Gradient of your choice

 

Here is a arrow you can drag and drop when you need to mark where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
It will stay where ever you put it, until you close your browser.
 

 

Step 1

Choose a light colour from your graphic for your foreground

and a dark colour from your graphic for your background

set your foreground to gradient and use your light and dark colour to make the gradient.

Angle 45, Repeats 2, style linear, invert checked.

 

It would be a good idea to write down your foreground & background colours.

 

Image / add borders 5 pixels in black

Image / add borders 20 pixels in white

Image / add borders 5 pixels in black

Image / add borders 15 pixels in green

Image / add borders 20 pixels in white

Image / add borders 5 pixels in black

 

 

Step 2

 

Using your magic wand select the two white Borders

Selections / Promote Selection to layer

Rename this layer to Double border

Fill both white borders with your Gradient.

 

Adjust / Add Remove Noise with the following

 

Step 3

 

Layers / New Raster Layer

Effects / 3D Effects Cutout with the following

 

Layers / New Raster Layer

Set your foreground to white and using your

paint brush in the selected areas paint some of the areas

Here's what mine looks like

 

Selections / Select None

 

Step 4

 

Using your magic wand again select the White pieces we just made

and fill with your light colour.

 

Effects / Texture Effects / Mosaic Antique

with the following

 

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel

with the following

 

Selections / Select None

 

Step 5

 

Select your bottom layer in the layer pallet.

Using your magic wand again select your green border

Selections / Modify / Expand 1

Selections / Promote Selection to Layer

Flood Fill the selected with your gradient but uncheck the invert.

Effects / plugins / Gregs Factory 2 / Pool shadow

with the default setting.

 

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel

with the following

 

Selections / Select None

 

Step 6

 

In the layer pallet highlight your Double border layer

Effects / Texture Effects / Weave

with the following

 

Now in the layer pallet close off all the layers except for the bottom layer.

Using your magic wand select all the black borders

 

Flood Fill the Black borders with a Gold or Silver Gradient of your choice.

Effects / 3D Effects / Inner Bevel

with the following

 

 

Selections / Select None

Open up all your layers again

Layers / Merge / Merge All.

 

That's it, Now save your image as a .jpg

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial.

 

Please link all creations made from my tutorials to my website.

Marianne's Creations

http://members.dodo.com.au/madgiles/mariannescreations.htm