PSP 7 Frame Tutorial

Tutorial By Sue C. - Rewritten by Bannerwoman

1. Right Click and copy this image to your hard drive. Open it in psp, click shift+D, this will make a copy of the original, close the original image for safe keeping.

2. You would need to resize any other picture to a "reasonable" size. Remembering your going to add borders to it.

3. Click on Selection, select all.

  

4. Click Selections, Modify, Contract,
 

Enter 10 In the box that pops up.  Your image should now look like this..

5. Click on Selections, Invert.

You will have two rows of marching ants around your image. One inside the image, one on the outside edge of the image.

6. Click Colors, Adjust, Gamma Correction. Set it to 2.10 for all three. When you adjust one, the other two boxes should follow. (The Auto Proof box there is like the eye in psp. If you turn this on, you will see what it does to your image before you click the OK button.)

This step will lighten the part of your image that has marching ants surrounding it.
 

7. Do NOT deselect. You should still have the two rows of marching ants on your screen. Click on Effects, Blur, Gaussian Blur. Set it to 15.00. The border will now be very blurred.

8. Click on Selections, Invert.

Now only one row of marching ants appear. It will be 10px in from the edge of the border.

9. Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout. Settings, Opacity 100, Blur 2, Vertical 1, Horizontal 1. Make the shadow color black. Fill Interior color UNCHECKED.

10. Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow. Using the same numbers as you did for the cutout. (Opacity 100, Blur 2, Vertical 1, Horizontal 1.) Only make the color WHITE.

11. Go to Selection, Select None.

12. Make your background color something that is NOT in your image. Click on Image, Add Borders.

Make sure the Symmetric box IS checked. Enter 15. All blanks will say 15. Click OK.

13. Use the magic wand and select the border you just added. There will be two rows of marching ants. One surrounding your entire graphic, one at the edge of your graphic, and beginning of your border.

14. Click on your dropper tool.   Select a color from the image by LEFT clicking a color on the image.

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