Soft Plastic Frame This tutorial is copyrighted to the Tut writer Sharon of SharEl Tutorials. This Tutorial may not be placed on any Website without written permission from SharEl Tutorials.You may share your results of this tutorial through an Egroup, but do not share the Tutorial itself without written permission from SharEl Tutorials.The graphics used in this tutorial were from the WWW or shared through email groups. If you are the artist and copyright holder of these graphics please let me know so I can either give you proper credit or remove them from my tutorial, whichever you wish me to do. Any supplies needed for any of my tutorials will have a link to get them. Wherever possible I use free filters for my tutorials and there will be a link to get them too. If I use an artist's work for my tutorials I will have the proper credit given to them along with a link to their site.If you use my supplies and there is a link to the artist, please put a link on your creation also. I believe in giving credit as they did the art, I only created a stationery with it. Supplies Needed: PSP Trial Version Here A Graphic of your choice (wider than taller works best) *Optional* Corners of your choice No Outside Filters Used Let's Begin: 1. Open your graphic in PSP. 2. Pick a light color from your graphic for the foreground and a light color for the background. 3. Set your foreground to gradient: Linear: Angle 45: Scale: 1 Invert Checked. 4. On your graphic: Image: Add borders: 2 Symmetric in your light color. 5. Select with your magic wand. 6. Effects: 3D Effects: Inner Bevel with these settings: Bevel # 11 Width: 12 Smoothness: 15 Ambience: 0 Shininess: 0 Color: White Angle: 315 Intensity: 50 Elevation: 30 7. Selections: Invert 8. Effects: 3D Effects: Cutout with these settings: V&H: 1 Opacity: 100 Blur: 10 Shadow color: Black Fill interior with color: Unchecked 9. Repeat cutout but -1 instead. 10. Select none. 11. Image: Add border: Symmetric: 2 in your dark color. 12. Image: Add border: Symmetric: 15 white. 13. Select with magic wand. 14. Flood fill with your gradient. 15. Effects: Artistic Effects: Topography with these settings: Width: 20 Density: 10 Angle: 90 Color: White 16. Select none. 17. Image: Add border: 2 in your light color. 18. Image: Add border: 2 in dark color. 19. Select all. 20. Selections: Modify: Contract: 4. 21. Selections: Invert. 22. Effects: 3D Effects: Inner Bevel same settings as before. 23. Select none. 24. Image: Add border: 25: White. 25. Select with magic wand. 26. Change your gradient setting to invert and then flood fill your selected border with the gradient. 27. Effects: Texture Effects: Soft Plastic with these settings: Blur: 55 Detail: 70 Density: 70 Angle: 0 Color: White 28. Effects: 3D Effects: Inner Bevel: same settings except change the bevel to # 2. 29. Select none. 30. Image: Add border: 2 light color. 31. Image: Add border 2 dark color. 32. Select all. 33. Selections: Modify: Contract: 4 34. Selections: Invert. 35. Effects: 3D Effects: Inner Bevel: same settings except switch it back to Bevel # 11. 36. Select none. 37. Image: Add border: 30 White. 38. Select with magic wand. 39. Uncheck invert on your gradient and flood fill with your gradient. 40. Effects: Distortion Effects: Kaleidoscope with these settings: Horizontal offset: -32 Vertical offset: 18 Rotation angle: 315 Scale factor: 9 Number of petals: 6 Number of orbits: 0 Radial suction: 93 Wrap: Checked 41. Effects: Texture Effects: Soft Plastic: Same settings. 42. Select none. 43. Image: Add border: 2 in light color. 44. Image: Add border: 2 in dark color. 45. Select all. 46. Selections: Modify: Contract: 4. 47. Selections: Invert. 48. Effects: 3D Effects: Inner Bevel: Same settings as Step 35. 49. Add corners if you wish. 50. Layers: New raster layer: Add your watermark and you’re done! Please link this Tutorial back to:"http:\\shareltutorials.110mb.com Thank you for trying my tutorial! Back This webpage created for SharEl Tutorials on 3-30-08.