Leather Frame

For this tutorial
you will need:

You will also need this gold fill; right click and save to your computer; minimize.

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Written January 23, 2002
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February 2002

Leather Frame

This tutorial was written using PSP7, but can probably be done in earlier versions with a few adjustments.

** Remember to save your work often! **

1. Open the image you wish to frame. If you would like to use this one, right click and save it to your computer.

2. Choose a medium color from your image and make this your foreground color (I am using #A3A9CA). Set your background to Pattern and select the "jd-gold" pattern (scale 100% - angle 0).

3. Go to Image - Add - Borders. Then make sure Symmetric is checked and 3 is in all of the boxes. Click OK.

4. Using your magic wand , Tolerence and Feather set to 0 and Sample Merged UNchecked, click on the new border. Flood fill with the gold pattern.

5. Go to Selections - Invert. Go to Effects - 3D Effects - Cutout and use these settings:

Color Black
Opacity 65
Blur 20
Vertical and Horizontal 2.

6. Repeat the Cutout but change the Vertical and Horizontal to -2. Selections - Select None.

7. Reverse your foreground and background in the Styles Pallette by clicking the arrow shown below:

8. Add another border of 20px (this should be the color you chose from your image). Select the new border with your Magic Wand. Go to Effects - Texture Effects - Fine Leather and use these settings:

Color Black
Angle 239
Blur 10
Number of Furrows 139
Length of Furrows 6
Transparency 250

9. Go to Effects - Sharpen - Sharpen. Now add a Cutout with these settings:

Color Black
Opacity 45
Blur 10
Vertical and Horizontal 2.

10. Repeat the cutout but change the Vertical and Horizontal to -2. Selections - Select None.

11. Go to Selections - Select All. Then Selections - Modify - Contract by 2. Then Image - Crop to Selection. This will remove the ugly edges left by the Leather effect.

12. Add another border of 3px and fill with the gold fill. Selections - Select None. Your image is finished. Here is one using a different image.

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