Gold
Font
Corner
Frame
Tutorial

Here is a simple Gold Frame for you to make using a Font as Corners.
Follow the instructions and when you are finished you can add it to your
PSP Frames collection. This tutorial involves the use of layers and
the instructions are set out so that it is very easy to follow.
Please choose a photo that you like, or perhaps a graphic of a scene
that will look good under your Gold Frame.

This tutorial was designed in PSP 6.02 and can be completed in other
versions with some adjustment. Have fun.
Copyright © by Harold E. Jones .. 2001-2002.

Level of difficulty: Beginner Beginner

1. Open new image, width="350" height="350", 16.7 million colors, Transparent.

2. Click on the "Color Options pallet." Color Options Pallet Make your background color Beige ["#FFE4B5"] and your foreground color white. ["#FFFFFF"].

3. I have included this image on the right of the layers pallet for illustration purposes.

4. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet Add a layer and name it "Color."

5. Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" Floodfill Tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet," Tool Options Pallet make sure that your option is "Solid color." Right click on the center of the "Color layer" and the layer will be flood filled with "White." This "white Color layer" will enable us to see what we are doing as we progress.

6. Add a new layer and name it "Border." Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" Floodfill Tool and in the "Tool Options Pallet," Tool Options Pallet you will still be on "Solid color." Left click on the center of the "Border layer" and the layer will be flood filled with "Beige."

7. Go to "Selections/select all." The "Marching Ants" will surround the outside of the Beige square.

8. Go to "Selections/modify/contract" and in the "Options box" that pops up, type the number 10 and press Ok. Wait for awhile and then you will see the "Marching Ants" will contract inside the square by 10 pixels.
9. Now to make the "Border." Press the "Delete Key" and the inside of the "Beige" square will disappear leaving the center of the white "Color layer" showing through.

10. Deselect. Go to "Selections/select none" or try the shortcut by pressing the "Control+D" keys together and the "Marching Ants" will disappear.

11. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," Magic Wand Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose the following settings. "RGB Value; Tolerance=0; Feather=0."

12. With the "Magic Wand," left click on the "Beige Border." The "Marching Ants" will appear to outline the "Border."
13. Go to "Image/effects/sculpture" and select the following settings. "Presets=Gold; Size=100%; Smoothness=10; Depth=3; Ambience=0; Shininess=46; Color=white; Angle=315; Intensity=30; Elevation=56." Click Ok. The "Border" will now be a rich "Golden Color."

14. Deselect. Go to "selections/select none." [or press the keys "cltrl+d" together] The "Marching Ants" will disappear.

15. Now is the time to save your work. We need to do this often as we progress through the Tutorial. It would be such a pity to do so much work and then "lose" it if something should go wrong with your Computer."

16. Go to "File/save as" and name this image, "Gold_frame.psp." Make sure that you save in the .psp extension so that the "Background" remains transparent."

17. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet Add a new layer and name it "inner border." You will see that you have 4 layers. "Layer 1" [the transparent layer], "color Layer," "Border layer" and the "Inner Border layer."

18. Click on your "Preset Shapes Tool," Preshapes Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose the following settings. "Presets shape type=Square; Style=stroked; Line width=10; Antialias=checked; create as vector=unchecked." Click Ok.
19. Draw a beige "Inner border" by starting at co-ordinates W=20 x H=20 and dragging down and to the right until you reach co-ordiantes W=310 x H=310.

Now to save your work again. Go to "File/save" and your work will be updated in the same name of "Gold_frame.psp."

20. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," Magic Wand Tool open your "Tool Options Pallet" Tool Options Pallet and choose the following settings. "RGB Value; Tolerance=0; Feather=0."

21. With the "Magic Wand," left click on the "Beige Inner Border." The "Marching Ants" will appear to outline the "Border."
22. Go to "Image/effects/sculpture" and select the following settings. "Presets=Gold; Size=100%; Smoothness=10; Depth=3; Ambience=0; Shininess=46; Color=white; Angle=315; Intensity=30; Elevation=56." Click Ok. The "Inner Border" will now be a rich "Golden Color."

23. Deselect. Go to "selections/select none." [or press the keys "cltrl+d" together] The "Marching Ants" will disappear.

24. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." Layers Options Pallet We have 4 layers, "Layer 1" [the transparent layer], "color Layer," "Border layer" and the "Inner Border layer." We need to combine the 2 "Border layers."

25. Turn the "layer 1" and "color layers" off by clicking on the "small glasses" to the right of the "Layer headings." [See the Layers diagram at the beginning of this tutorial.] Red crosses will appear on the "small glasses."

26. Go to "Layers/merge/merge visible" and the "Border" and "Inner border" layers will merge.

27. Right click on the "merged layer" heading and when the "Options box" pops up, click on the word "Properties." Rename the merged layer by typing in "Border."

28. Turn the bottom 2 layers on again by clicking on the "small glasses" and the "red crosses" will disappear.
Now to save your work again. Go to "File/save" and your work will be updated in the same name of "Gold_frame.psp."


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