Gold Glitter Cutout Frame

I have been asked many times how I get the gold band around my graphics, so I thought I would write a tutorial. This is my first try at writing one. I hope it's not too confusing.

Right click on picture, Save As, and save to you hard drive. First add a border to your image. I usually add a white border of 3 or 4 pixels depending on the size of the image. Image/add borders.

Use the magic wand and select the border. Apply the blade pro preset gold-glitter. You can download it here. Next apply Filter Factory A Pool Shadow filter. I used the following settings for the pool shadow. You can download Filter Factory A here. If you don't have blade pro just right click on the image below save as, and save to your hard drive. Flood fill the border with the gold-glitter tile.

Add another border of 12. Using the color picker, pick 2 contrasting colors from the image. I flood filled the border with a light green. Then I flood filled with a darker green using the floral texture. You can download the floral texture here. Put the floral texture in your textures folder in Paint Shop Pro.

I then selected all and applied a cutout effect using the following settings. Apply a second cutout using the same settings except Horizontal 3 and Vertical 3.

Add another white border of 3 pixels, apply the gold-glitter preset and then the pool shadow. That's it!

PSP Lovers of PSP.

Tutorial of the Week of the Nothing Cute Here list.

Home Tutorials