by Sandy Moore
   

1.  Open an image.  For this effect, try not to choose a
busy image.  Choose one that is simple and has a simple
background, like the image here.

2.  Make your background color white.  Add a symmetric
border of 25 pixels.
3.  Using the magic wand, set tool options to RGB Value,
Tolerance 0, Feather 15.  Click on the white border
 to select it.  Since it's feathered by 15 pixels,
 the marching ants will go beyond the border and
into the inner image.
4.   Using the eyedropper, left click on
a color in your image for your foreground color.  Flood fill
the feathered selection with this color.  You should have this
result.

 

TIP:  If you select black (or any other color) as your
background color before you add your 25 pixel border, then
black (or whatever color you chose) is the color that will "glow"
around the image when you flood fill the selection in Step 4.

5.  While still selected, go to Image/Deformations/Spiky Halo, using
these settings:  Horizontal 0, Vertical 0, Radius 1, Amplitude 38,
Frequency 38.

6.  While still selected, Image/Effects/Inner Bevel with these settings:

 

7.  Select none.  You should have this:

 

8.  Now you'll be either using this image below or open any
"busy" image of your choice (it can be any image - landscape,
floral, etc.).

9.  You'll need to colorize this image to match/compliment the first
border you made.  To colorize it with the right color, first right
click on the foreground color box, which should still be the color
you used for flood filling the first border.  In the color dialog
box that pops up, note the Hue number and the Sat number.  Click
cancel to close the box.
10.  Now make the image you've chosen active, go to Colors/Colorize
and enter the same Hue and Saturation numbers you noted in the color
dialog box and apply.
11.  With this same image active, use the FM Tile Tools/Seamless Tile
filter with default settings, Vertical unchecked, and apply.  Again
to Tile Tools Seamless Tile and this time Vertical checked, and apply.
(If you don't have FM Tile Tools, then just make you image into a
seamless tile.)

12.  Add another border, 15 pixels, select it and flood fill with the image
you just colorized.  Then add another 3 pixel border and apply the
Blade Pro preset of your choice..............I used a copper preset on this
image.  Optional:add a design font somewhere in your image, on a
separate layer, with a slight drop shadow.  I added a floral ding.
Final image:

 

Sandy Moore is the author of this tutorial.  She
has given me permission to put it on my site. 

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