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Quilt Frame


To
work this Tutorial you will need: Paint
Shop Pro, Crescent
Moon Filters, Ulead
Art Tex Filter, Inner Bevel
preset (extract this to your psp presets folder), a corner
ding font and an image of your choice.
Lets
get started:
Open
an image of your choice and duplicate it,
shift+D,
name it and save it, close the original.
Remember
to save your work often.
1. Set your background colour to Black #000000, Image/add borders
1 symetric checked.
2.
Set your background colour to White #FFFFFF, Image/add
borders 3 symetric checked, using the magic wand tool set with
tolerance 0, feather 0 select your border by clicking on it,
Effects/PIug in filters/ Ulead/Art texture, click edit and select
palette 5 (the gold one), click ok and then select pattern #1,
click ok. Effects/3D Effects/InnerBevel and apply the QuiltFrame_bpg
preset. Do not deselect.
3.
Selections/Invert, Effects/3D Effects/Cutout using the folowing
settings, H2 V2 O75 B4 colour black #000000. Repeat this cutout
once more changing the H+V setting to -2.
4.
Using the colour picker tool select a light colour from your
image as your background colour. Image/Add borders, 10 symetric
checked. With your magic wand tool and the same settings as
before select your border, Effects/Plugin Filters/Crescent Moon/Quilt
using these settings, Horizontal spacing 255, Vertical spacing
175 Transparency 0.
5.
Repeat steps 2 and 3.
6.
Once again repeat steps 2 and 3.
7.
Using the colour picker tool select a medium colour from your
image as your background colour. Image/Add borders, 15 symetric
checked. With your magic wand tool and the same settings as
before select your border, Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds using
these settings, W 10, O 30, colour Black #000000, Horizontal
unchecked then repeat this blinds effect again this time with
the Horizontal checked.
8.
Repeat steps 2 and 3.
9.
Using the medium colour that you selected from your image in
step 7, repeat step 4 but this time change the border size to
20.
10.
Effects/3D Effects/InnerBevel and apply the QuiltFrame_bpg preset,
then repeat step 3.
11.
Set your background colour to White #FFFFFF, Image/add
borders 5 symetric checked, using the magic wand tool with the
same settings select your border and apply the Unilead art tex,
once again using the same settings, then repeat step 3. Resize
your image at this stage so that the longest side is 400 pixels.
Effects/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask, with these settings, R 10, S 20,
C 5.
12.
With your foreground colour set to null and your background
colour set to white #FFFFFF, select your text tool, vector and
antialias checked and using your corner ding size 100 apply
the ding to one corner of your image moving it into position
by using the handle, when you are happy with it's placement,
convert to raster.
13.
Selections/Select All, Selections/Float and apply the same Art
tex and Inner Bevel as before, then apply the following Drop
Shadow H+V 2, O 75, B4, colour Black #000000, deselect.
14.
Layers/View/Current Only, you should now only be able to see
your ding. In the layer palette, right click and duplicate,
Image/Mirror, layers/Merge Visible, then right click and duplicate
this merged layer, Image/Flip. Layers/View/All, Layers/Merge
All Flatten and save and your done.
Here's
another one I made

Thank
you for trying this tutorial, I hope you have enjoyed working
it as much as I have writing it.
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