For this tutorial you will need the texturizer
plug-in ,Blade Pro, the gold-glitter preset,
Filter Factory A, the FootPrts texture, the
mask image, and an image of your choice.
If you would like to use mine, right click on
the image and choose save as and save
to your hard drive. Unzip the footprts texture
to your textures folder. If you don't have
blade pro, you can use the gold-glitter tile
to flood fill the border. You will have to install
the plug-ins. If you are new to PSP, here is
a link that will explain how to install them. Click
on Filters and Plug-ins under Resource Center.
I also created a separate folder within the plug-in
folder for each filter I have. If you don't have the

texturizer plug-in, use the texturizer in PSP7.

This is the image you will be using for the mask.
Right click and choose save as and save to
your hard drive.

Open up the image you will be using and
resize if necessary. Open up the mask image.
Click on your image and choose Masks/New
From Image and use these settings.

Now choose Masks/Delete and answer yes.

Next choose Layers/New Raster Layer, then Layers/
Arrange/Send to Bottom.

Flood fill the bottom layer with the color of
your choice. I used color #858377. Next
to add texture to the background, I used
the texturizer plug-in. Click on Effects/
Plug-in Filters/Texturizer. I used these settings.

I used the FOOTPRTS texture.

Now click on the mask layer and choose Effects/
3D Effects/Drop Shadow. I used the following
settings. Next choose Layers/Merge/Merge All.

Now make your background color white. Choose
Image/Add Borders and add a border of 2 pixels.
Using the Magic Wand, Match Mode RGB, Tolerance 0,
Feather 0, select the border. Now choose Effects/
Plug-in Filters/Flaming Pear/Blade Pro and apply the gold-glitter
preset using the default settings or use my gold-glitter
tile to flood fill the border. It works just as well. Next
choose Effects/Plug-in Filters/Filter Factory A/Pool Shadow
and apply the pool shadow with these settings.
Selections/Select None.

Change your background color to a contrasting
color from the image. I used Color #64635C. Now
choose Image/Add Borders and add a border of
12 pixels. Using the magic wand, same settings as
before, select the border. Now choose Effects/
Plug-in Filters/Filter Factory A/Pool Shadow and
apply a pool shadow using the same settings as
before. Selections/Invert.
Now choose Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and
apply a drop shadow with these settings.

Now apply another drop shadow same settings as above
except Vertical and Horizontal -1. Selections/Select None.
Change your background color to white then choose
Image/Add Borders and add a border of 3 pixels. Using
the Magic Wand, same settings as before, select the border.
Next choose Effects/Plug-in Filters/Flaming Pear/Blade Pro
and apply the gold glitter preset. Now choose Effects/
Plug-in Filters/Filter Factory A/Pool Shadow and apply a
pool shadow, same settings as before. Selections/Invert.
Next choose Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply
a drop shadow same settings as before, then add another
drop shadow same settings except Vertical and Horizontal -1.
This is your final image! I added a leaf tube just for decoration.
Masks are my favorite effect for making frames! You can
use any image for a mask. So many possibilities.

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