Frame Included Tutorial

 This tutorial was written in PSP 9 but should be almost the same in PSP 8  You will need my tube here or a tube of your choice  about the same size as mine 400 x 400 Toadies Ommadawn filter here  Open a new transparent canvas 500 x 500  In the foreground box of your material palette chose any colour you like that will match your tube.  Flood fill the canvas with this colour  Effects-plug-ins-toadies-ommadawn-settings- Cell width 33- Cell height 33- Sharp/soft 234 -On/off 17 With your magic wand select the black grid lines and flood fill with a gold pattern of your choice  Select none.  Effects -distortion effect-curlyques- settings-Columns 4- rows 4 -radius 90 -strength 70- ticked symmetric box  Selection tool on square make a square in the centre of your canvas and leave enough room outside to make a frame-this needs some care to get the border equal all round  Now selections invert.  Effects 3d effects-outer bevel-default setting  Selections invert   Copy and paste the tube into the selection-select none.  Resize your tube to 15% -tick maintain original print size- and use resample bilinear.  Copy and paste it as new layer onto the canvas duplicate this layer as many times as you like and arrange the images around the frame.  Layers merge visible and add new frame for your watermark and any text.  Resize as you wish and if you have used any artists tube that requires copyright information don't forget to add that to the tag.   Adjust -sharpness-sharpen if it is needed.  That's it done--I hope you enjoyed it.  written by Chrissie November 20th 2004 positioned on this site April12th 2005