PSP 7 Frame Tutorial Continued...

15. Click on the Bucket Tool,  and LEFT click anywhere in your border, inside the marching ants. This will color your border the color you choose from the step above. DO NOT DESELECT.

16. If you want to texture your border, go to Effects/Texture/Texture, and choose something you like, and click apply. If NOT then skip to the next step.

In this tutorial, I used Blanket preset in the dropdown list shown above, with these settings.

17. Go to Selections/Invert. Selecting the inside portion of your border.

18. Click on Effects/3D Effects/Cutout, apply the same settings as last time, should be already there for you.

19. Click on Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow, apply the same settings as last time, should still be there for you.

20. Go to Selections, SELECT NONE.

21. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Buttonize. Enter HEIGHT: 10, WIDTH: 10, OPACITY 41. Transparent edge CHECKED. You can play with these settings to get whatever effect you want. Use the EYE to see the changes as you make them. (*Note: the buttonizer is affected by your background color. So if you have your background color set to blue, buttonize will give your frame a tinge of blue.)

 

Go To Image Resize, and resize to 275 for the height, let the width auto size. Then go to effects/sharpen/sharpen.

22. Go to file/new.

Create a background that you will want to place the image you just made onto. You can use textures or whatever. Even a plain background will do. You will want this to be at least 30px or so higher than your image, and 1024px wide! For this image were using 1024x300 white.

choose a color from your graphic with the eye dropper , and flood fill, using the bucket , a solid color. If your confident enough, add a texture. (Effects/Texture Effects/Texture). For this one I never.  I just added the color.

23. Go back to your framed image. Click Edit/Copy or the double note pad beside the scissors.

24. Go back to your background strip you just made, then go to EDIT/Paste As New LAYER.

25. Use the mover Tool and move the framed image to the far left, and closer to the top.

26. Go to your Layers Pallet, make sure your on Layer 1, select your magic wand ( ) and click anywhere other then on the image. You will have marching ants around your framed image, and your entire background.

27. Go to Selections/Invert.
 

28. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and add a drop shadow of Opacity 32, Blur 12, Vertical 8, Horizontal 8.

29.  Go To Selections/Select None.

30. Layers/Merge/All Flatten

This is your finished product on a smaller scale.
Save and post for the world to see! :O)

A special thanks to Sue C. for letting me rewrite this tutorial!  :O)