For this tutorial you will need an image of

your choice, the fuzzy mask, blade pro,

a gold or bronze gradient, and a bronze or

gold preset. I used Dee's Bronze Shimmer.

You can use my image if you want. Right click

and choose save picture as and save to your

hard drive.

 Open up your image of choice. Now choose

Layer\New Raster Layer. On the styles palette

choose the linear gradient. I used MQc-bronze.

I used the following settings. 

 Now using the bucket tool , flood fill your

new layer using these settings.

Next choose Mask/Load From Disk

and choose the fuzzy mask.

Next choose Masks/Delete and answer yes to

the question would you like this mask merged into

the current layer.

Now change the blend mode on the layer palette

to dissolve and lower the opacity to 77.

Click on layer 1 and choose Effects/3D effects/

Drop Shadow. Use the following settings.

Add another drop shadow, same settings except V & H -1.

Layers/Merge/Merge All.

Now choose Image/Add Border and add a border of 15.

I used Color #594633 for my border.

Using the magic wand , with the following settings,

select the border. Do not deselect.

Now choose Layer/New Raster Layer.

Using the Bucket Tool , same settings as before,

flood fill your selection with the same gradient you

used before. Selections/Select None.

Change the Blend mode to dissolve and lower the

opacity to 35.

Click on layer one and add a drop shadow with the following

settings. Add another drop shadow, same settings as before

except H & V -5. Layers/Merge/Merge All.

Change your background color to white. Now choose

Image/Add Border and add a white border of 3 pixels.

Using the magic wand with the following settings,

select the white border.

Now choose Effects/Plug-in Filters/Flaming Pear/ Blade Pro.

I used D-bronze shimmer. Next choose Effects/3D Effects/

Cutout and use the following settings. Now apply another

cutout, same settings as before except H & V -3. Selections/Invert.

Effects/Sharpen.

I added some Corner Dings to decorate my frame.

I received this award from PSPMadeEZ as

best tutorial of the week.

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