Rose Leather Frame





This tutorial was created in PSP X
but can be easily done in other versions.
I have also rated this as intermediate as
I have few screen shots and brief explanations.


This tutorial was written by me and is ©momentzdesignz
Any other tutorial that looks similar is purely coincidental
and no infringement of any other artist is intended.

For this tutorial you will need the following:

PSP X
Tube of your choice
Plugin - Toadies - Ommadawn

1 - Choose your tube and copy
2 - Open new image to the exact size of your tube
3 - Choose a background color that compliments your tube
4 - Flood fill your new background with your chosen color
5 - Copy and paste your tube on the new background as a new Layer
6 - Still on your Tube layer > Effects > 3D Effects> Drop Shadow
Settings: V & H 10, Opacity 50, Blur 5 and color - black
7 - Layers > Merge > Merge All Flatten

8 - Make a duplicate copy and minimize - we will use as a pattern in our frame.

Back to the image we are working on

9 - Effects > Texture Effects > Texture > Tin Foil - [see screenshot below]



10 - Effects > 3D Effects > Buttonize
Settings: H and W 10, Opacity 46, transparent checked, color #808080

11 - Set Foreground to dark color from your image
12 - Set Background to a gold gradient of choice
13 - Add border - 2 px - flood fill with gold gradient
14 - Add border - 2 px - flood fill with Foreground color
15 - Add border - 2 px - flood fill with gold gradient


16 - Image > Add border - 30 px
17 - Select with the magic wand
18 - In Materials box - change your Foreground to Pattern
19 - Find the copy of your image that we miminized earlier
20 - Flood fill the border
21 - Keep Selected
22 - Effects > Texture Effects > Mosaic Antique
Settings: # of columns & rows 50, tile diffusion 70, grout width 2,
grout diffussion 50
23 - Keep selected
24 - Effects > Texture Effects > Fine Leather
Settings: Color - #DCDCDC, angle 30, blur, 40, transparency 250,
# of furrows 40 and length of furrows 4
25 - Selections > Select None


26 - Repeat steps 13, 14 & 15 for your 3 small borders

27 - Image > Add border - 40 px
28 - Floodfill this border with the same pattern
29 - Effects > Plugins > Toadies > Ommadawn
Settings: 85, 52, 80 and 100
30 - Keep Selected
31 - Effects > 3D Effects > Inner Bevel
Settings: Bevel #2, width 8, smoothness 0, depth 6, ambience -7,
shininess 1, color - white, angle 315, intensity 50 and elevation 30
32 - Selections > Select none


33 - Repeat steps 13, 14 & 15 for your 3 small borders
34 - Add decorative corners as you wish
35 - Add watermark, re-size if necessary and save as a .jpg

Thank you and I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial
:o)



©momentzdesignz - 1999



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