Ribbons and Hearts Sideborder

Ribbons and Hearts Side Border

The tube I have used is by Yoka. With thanks.

This is what you will need:

PSP. I have used X but it should work in earlier or later versions

A tube (Misted is preferable) Also works with a graphic or tube masked with 20-20.

Patterns. Gold or Silver Beads. Here

Italian Editors Effect Effetto Fantasma Here (download directly to your plugins folder)

Simple Filters

Brush Strokes Here (download directly to your plugins folder)

Artistic Here (download directly to your plugins folder)

OK. Let's begin!

1. Open PSP and select your tube.

2. Materials Palette/Select two colours from your image. A darker one for your foreground and a lighter one for your background.

3. Materials Palette/Foreground/Gradient. Select Foreground-Background/Style Linear/Angle 45/Repeats 3/Invert CHECKED.

4. Minimise your image and switch your foreground back to colour.

5. File/ New/Open a Raster transparent image 260 x 260 pixels.

6. Selections/Select all

7. Selections/Modify/Contract 18

8. Selections/Invert

9. Flood fill tool/flood fill your selection with your foreground colour

10. Selections/Select none.

11. Effects/Distortion Effects/Warp using the following settings:-Horizontal and Vertical (minus) -58/Size 28/Strength (minus) -47.

12. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/Top Left Mirror

13. Selection Tool/Magic Wand using the following settings:- Mode Add (Shift)/RGB Value/Tolerance 0/Use all Layers and Contiguous CHECKED/Feather 0/Anti-alias CHECKED/Outside/Select the border you have just created

14. Effects/Plugins/Italian Editors Effect/Effetto Fantasma using the following settings:- Sposta-X 30/Sposta-Y 30.

15. Selections/Select None

16. Selection Tool/Magic Wand (same settings) Select the four inner light segments of your frame (see below):

17. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

18. Flood Fill Tool/ Flood fill with your gradient.

19. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/Top Left Mirror

20. Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds using the following settings:-Width 2/Opacity 20/Colour White (or a colour of your choice)/Horizontal UNCHECKED/Light from left/top CHECKED ( I have used Blinds in this tutorial because everyone has it in their PSP, but you can use a different texture or pattern to make your creation your own.)

21. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using the following settings: Bevel 2/Width 1/Smoothness 20/Depth 1/Ambience and Shininess 0/ Colour White/Angle 315/Intensity and Elevation 40.

22. Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders using the following settings: Outside/Anti-Alias CHECKED/Border Width 2

23. Materials Palette/Background/Pattern/Select Golden Beads or Silver Beads/Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill your selection with the pattern.

24. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen More.

25. Selections/Select None.

26. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings: Vertical and Horizontal 1/Opacity 20/Blur 1/Colour Black/Shadow on New Layer NOT checked.

27. Repeat Drop Shadow using -1 (minus) Settings

28. Close your top layer and highlight your bottom layer

29. Selection Tool/Magic Wand Select the outer pattern (see below)

30. Selections/Invert/Press delete on your keyboard.

31. Selections/Invert

32. Materials Palette/Gradient/Same settings but Invert UNCHECKED

33. Flood Fill your selected border with the gradient.

34. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filter/Top Left Mirror

35. Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds/Same settings but CHECK horizontal

36. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel

37. Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders same settings

38. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with your gold or silver bead pattern

39. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen more

40. Selections/Select None

41. Open your top layer/Layers Merge/Merge Visible and close this layer.

42. Layers/New Raster Layer.

43. Image/Canvas Size using the following settings: Width 340/Height 340/Placement Centre Arrow Selected

44. Selections/Select All

45. Selections/Modify/Contract 25

46. Selections/Invert

47. Flood fill with your foreground colour

48. Selections/Select None

49. Effects/Distortion Effects/Warp using the same settings.

50. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/Top Left Mirror

51. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the border you have just created.

52. Effects/Plugins/Italian Editors Effect/Effetto Fantasma using the same settings

53. Selections/Select None

54. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the four sections of the inner border as we did for the first part of the frame.

55. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

56. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with your gradient/Invert UNCHECKED

57. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/Top Left Mirror

58. Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds/Horizontal UNCHECKED

59. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel

60. Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders

61. Flood Fill with your gold or silver bead pattern

62. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen More

63. Selections/Select None

64. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow

65. Repeat Drop Shadow using minus settings.

66. Close this layer and highlight your frame border layer.

67. Select each section of the outer patterned border.

68. Selections/Invert then press delete on your keyboard

69. Selections/Invert

70. Materials Palette/Foreground/Gradient/Invert CHECKED flood fill your border with the gradient.

71. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/Top Left Mirror

72. Effects/Texture Effects/Blinds/Horizontal CHECKED

73. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel

74. Selections/Modify/Select Selection Borders/Same Settings

75. Flood fill with your chosen bead pattern

76. Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen More

77. Selections/Select None.

78. Open all of your closed layers and merge visible.

79. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the centre space of your frame and Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

80. Selections/Modify/Expand 8

81. Flood fill the selection with your background colour.

82. Selections/Select None

83. Layers/Arrange/Move Down

84. Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise/Gaussian/Noise 6/Monochrome CHECKED

85. Effects/Plugins/Brush Strokes/Crosshatch using the following settings:-Stroke Length 9/Sharpness 6/Strength 1

86. Maximise your tube and resize so that it is no more than 200 pixels on it's largest side.

87. Edit/Copy and close. Edit/Paste as New Layer onto your frame. Adjust as necessary.

You should now have this.

88. Image/Canvas Size/using the following settings:- Width 1280/Height 400/Placement Centre Left Arrow CHECKED

89. Layers/New Raster Layer

90. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom

91. Flood fill with your colour of choice or use your darker foreground colour.

92. Adjust/Add Remove Noise/Add Noise same settings

93. Effects/Plugins/Artistic/Dry Brush using the following settings:- Brush Size 2/Brush Detail 8/Texture 1

94. Effects/Plugins/Brush Strokes/Crosshatch using the same settings.

95. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling/Default.

96. Highlight your top (Frame) Layer and add the following Drop Shadow: Vertical and Horizontal 2/Opacity 30/Blur 6/Colour Black/Shadow on New Layer NOT checked.

97. Repeat Drop Shadow using Minus -2 settings.

98. Highlight your tube background layer and lower the opacity to your preference. On this example the opacity is at 63%.

99. Layers Merge/Merge Visible.

100. Add a new layer and add your watermark.

Export as a Jpeg with the compression at 25.

Assemble in Letter Creator and set your text at 350 Left.

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

The tube I have used in this example is by JR. With thanks.