Pendant Drop Side Border

Pendant Drop Side Border

This Tutorial is entirely my own work and any resemblance to any other is purely co-incidental. This tutorial is not to be copied, scripted, translated or shared in any groups without my permission.

My most grateful thanks, as always, to my fabulous team of testers at Force Fantastic.

This is what we are making:

The image used in this example is 'Jaynaece and Sephranaena' by Alien Rose

You will Need:

PSP. I have created this in PSP X but it should work in earlier and later versions

A graphic

Filter Factory Gallery A

DSB Flux

Penta Colour Dot (optional)

Filters Unlimited 2 (optional)

20-20 Mask. Find it Here (Download Directly into your PSP Mask Folder. It will show when you re-open PSP)

Here is what you do:

This image is created larger than necessary as resizing minimises any jaggies created by the warp feature.

1. When choosing your graphic try and choose one that is as square as possible or one that will easily crop into a square shape. Open your chosen image in PSP and adjust as necessary.

2. Image/Resize. Resize to 225 x 225 pixels or as near as you can get it to these measurements

3. Layers/Load/Save Mask/Load 20-20 mask using the following settings:

4. Layers/Merge/Merge Group and minimise the image until later.

5. File/New/open a new image 500 x 500 pixels raster transparent.

6. Materials Palette/Select the following colours: #f6a018 for your foreground and #fdfc9f for your background. (We have used these colours before in a tutorial and they will not show when your frame is completed)

7. Materials Palette/Foreground Colour/Gradient/Foreground-Background using the following settings:-Angle 45/Repeats 3/Invert CHECKED/Style Radial/Centre Point Horizontal and Vertical 50

8. Preset Shape Tool/Elipse using the following settings:- Anti-Alias CHECKED/Create as Vector CHECKED/ Line Style +Solid/Width 30/Join Mitre Join/Mitre Limit 15

9. Null your background colour by clicking on the icon under the colour box.

10. Holding down the shift key and beginning a little way in from the top left corner of your open image drag out a circle 400 x 400 pixels. Watch the measurements on the bottom left of your screen.

11. Objects/Align/Center in Canvas.

12. Layers/Convert to Raster Layer

13. Effects/Geometric Effects/Pentagon/Edge Mode Repeat

14. Effects/Distortion Effects/Warp using the following settings: Horizontal 0/Vertical 100/Size 64/Strength - (minus) 100

You should now have this:

15. Eraser Tool using the following settings: Size 32/Hardness 100/Step 5/Density 100/Thickness 100/Rotation 0/Opacity 100. Use a square or circle whichever you prefer and carefully remove the two oval shapes at the bottom of the image being careful not to clip the pendant.

Now your image should look like this:

16. Effects/Reflection Effects/Kaleidoscope using the following settings: Number of Petals 2/All others at 0/Edge Mode Repeat

17. Maximise your masked graphic and choose two colours for your frame and background. A stronger colour for your frame and a lighter colour for your background (try to avoid very pale pastels). Minimise your graphic.

18. Crop Tool/ /Snap Crop Rectangle to Layer Opaque/Click on or double click the square in the centre of your image to crop.

19. Effects/Distortion Effects/Pinch using the following setting: Strength 20%. Tip: After completing this step save as a PSP image and when you next want to do this tut the image is ready and you can begin at step 20.

20. Effects/Artistic Effects/Chrome using the following settings: Flaws 2/Brightness 0/Colour the colour you chose for your frame.

21. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using the following settings: Bevel 2/Width 16/Smoothness 35/Depth 2/Ambience 0/Shininess 0/Colour White/Angle 330/Intensity 42/Elevation 40

22. Selection Tool/Magic Wand using the following settings:- Mode Add (Shift)/Match Mode RGB Value/Tolerance 10/Use all Layers and Contiguous CHECKED/Feather 0/Anti-Alias CHECKED/Outside. Select the space inside the two pendant shapes at the top and bottom of your frame.

23. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

24. Selections/Modify/Expand 1 pixel

25. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill the selections with your background colour using the following settings: Match Mode None/ Use all Layers CHECKED/ Blend Mode Normal/ Opacity 100%

26. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel (Same Settings) Adjust Ambience to brighten if preferred.

27. Selections/Select None

28. Layers/Arrange/Move Down

29. Highlight your Frame Layer/Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the Inner space of your frame

30. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

31. Selections/Modify/Expand 3pixels

32. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with your Background colour

33. Selections/Select None

34. Layers/Arrange/Move Down

35. Image/Resize using the following settings: Width 320/Let Height Self Adjust /Resample using Smart Size/Lock Aspect Ratio and Resize all Layers CHECKED

36. Maximise your graphic/Edit/Copy and minimise

37. Edit/Paste as New Layer onto your Frame image. Adjust the size if necessary using the pick tool. Tip: If you have hard edges on your graphic take it out and add 20-20 mask again.

38. Optional/Highlight your top Frame Layer. Effects/Plugins/Penta.com/Colour Dot using the following Settings: Distance 5/All Others at 255 (you can use a texture or pattern of your own choice)

39. Optional/Highlight your inner Frame Background Layer/Effects/Plugins/Filters Unlimited 2/Paper Textures/Fine Canvas using the following settings: Intensity 50/Lightness 87

40. Image/Canvas Size/Increase the width of your canvas using the following settings: Width 1024/Height 403/Placement Centre Left Arrow CHECKED (If your Screen Resolution is different adjust accordingly)

41. Highlight your top Frame Layer/Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings: Vertical and Horizontal 2/Opacity 30/Blur 8/Colour Black/Shadow on New Layer NOT checked

42. Repeat Drop Shadow using Minus -2 Vertical and Horizontal Settings.

43. Close your bottom (blank layer)/Layers Merge/Merge Visible.

44. Open and Highlight your bottom layer and flood fill with your background colour. You can choose a different colour from your graphic for this if you wish or use one of your present colours. I have chosen to use my foreground colour.

45. Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise using the following settings: Gaussian/Noise 4%/Monochrome CHECKED

46. Effects/Plugins/Filter Factory Gallery A/Triangular Mosaic Filter using the following settings: Size 13/Mode 100

47. Effects/Plugins/DSB Flux/Bubbles using the following settings: Bubbles 5/Density, Frequency, Tune all at 50

48. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tile/Default

49. Effects/Edge Effects/Enhance

50. Optional/Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add noise/Same settings

51. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible

52. Layers/New Raster Layer/Add your Watermark if desired.

53. File/Export/Export as Jpeg with the compression at 25.

Assemble in Letter Creator and set your text at 340 Left.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. If you have any queries or would just like to share your result with me click here

The example below was completed using a tube which was masked in the same way as the graphic.

Tube by CNP with thanks.

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