Satin and Lace Frame Set

Satin and Lace Frame Set

(or 1001 things to do with one pattern)

This tutorial is entirely my own work and any resemblance to any other is purely co-incidental. Please do not copy, duplicate, translate, script or use in any groups without my permission.

My thanks to my fabulous testers at Force Fantastic for their unfailing support and patience.

At first glance this tutorial seems very long but you don't begin creating the frame until step 24. The first part is about loading the supplied pattern into the correct folders and creating another pattern for your background. The frame itself is very easy to create once you have everything in place. There are many ways of achieving a great result using the ideas contained on this page, (see bottom of page for examples) either for tags or for letters, so once you have worked the tutorial through and have everything you need in place, why not have a go at putting your own creative slant on things.

You will need:-

Paint shop Pro. I have completed this in PSP X but it will work in 9

A Tube.

My Pattern. Download Here. Unzip and save to a folder on your computer.

Simple Filters

FM. Tile Tools

Mezzy (Optional)

Here is what to do:-

1. On your computer locate the folder where you saved your pattern.

2. Right click/Copy the pattern

3. Locate your PSP Patterns folder. (Mine is My Documents/My PSP Files/Patterns)

4. Right Click/Paste your copy of the pattern into that folder.

5. Now locate your PSP Textures Folder (Mine is C Drive/Program Files/Corel/PSP X/Textures)

6. Right Click/Paste your copy pattern into the textures folder.

7. Open your PSP.

8. In your Materials Palette/Foreground/ choose the Pattern Tab

9. Locate the pattern you have just saved and insert the following settings. Angle 0/Scale 10 (ten). Throughout this tutorial this will be referred to as Pattern 1.

Return your Materials Palette foreground to the colour tab.

11. Open your chosen tube into your workspace and resize so that it is no more than 198 pixels on it's longest side

12. Materials Palette/Foreground/From your tube select a dark foreground colour. Your colour needs to be dark because it will lighten considerably during the course of this tutorial and if it is too light it will glare. Avoid Black.

13. Materials Palette/Background/Colour Tab/From your tube select your background colour/keep it light but avoid white and bright pastels. See my colours below as a guide:-

During the course of this tutorial you will be working mainly with 2 patterns. The one I have provided and the one you are going to create now which will become your background.

14. Open a Raster Transparent Image 100 x 100 pixels.

15. Flood Fill Tool/Decide which colour background you want and flood fill with your dark or light colour

16. Effects/Texture Effects/Texture/using the following settings. Locate the pattern I provided in the drop down box/Size 25/Smoothness 10/Depth 1/Ambience and Shininess 0/Colour White/Angle 315/Intensity 50/Elevation 30.

17. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/4Way Average

18. Effects/Distortion Effects/Displacement Maps/Using the following Settings/Locate the pattern provided in the drop down box/Tile Map to cover Image/Size 30/Blur 0/3D Surface/Intensity 30/Rotation 0/Wrap Checked.

19. Effects/Artistic Effects/Enamel/Using the following settings: Blur 21/Detail 100/Density 74/Angle 84/Colour use your dark foreground colour if your background is dark and your light colour if your background is light.

20. Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Blend Emboss at Default

21. Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling at Default.

22. Materials Palette/Background (bottom)/Select the Pattern Tab and locate the pattern you have just created/Angle 0/Scale 100 (one hundred). Throughout this tutorial this will be referred to as Pattern 2. You can now minimize your pattern image.

23. Materials Palette Foreground (top)/Return this to Pattern 1

We are now ready to begin creating our Frame.

24. Open a Raster Transparent Image 200 x 200 pixels

25. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 2

26. Edit/Copy your tube.

27. Edit/Paste as New Layer onto your prepared background image. You can now close your tube answering no to the Save Changes question box.

28. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings: Vertical and Horizontal 2/Opacity 55/Blur 12/Colour Black/Shadow on New Layer not checked.

29. Layers/Merge/Merge all Flatten.

30. Image/Add Borders/3 Pixels/Symmetric/in a bright colour not contained in your image.

31. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/using the following settings/select the border. These settings will remain the same throughout this tutorial.

32. Flood Fill Tool/Left click and Flood Fill the border with pattern 1

33. Selections/Invert

34. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout/using the following settings. Vertical & Horizontal Offset 0/Opacity 55/Blur 15/Shadow Colour Black/Fill Interior with colour not checked. These settings will remain the same throughout this tutorial.

35. Selections/Invert

36. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/using the following settings. Bevel 2/Width 2/Smoothness 10/Depth 2/Ambience & Shininess 0/Colour your light background colour/Angle 315/Intensity/50/Elevation 40. When you have all of the settings in place click on the Save Preset Button (see image below). Name the setting SL Bevel 1/OK/OK again. If you would like a gold Border use colour #ebda9f. (Shown below)

37. Deselect

38. Image/Add Borders/33 pixels/Symmetric/in a bright colour not contained in your image.

39. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the border.

40. Layer Palette/Right Click on your background layer and select/Promote Background Layer.

41. Press Delete on you Keyboard

42. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

43. Selections/Invert

44. Selections/Modify/Contract/3 Pixels

45. Selections/Invert

46. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 1

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

48. Effects/Artistic Effects/Enamel/Using the following settings. Blur 0/Detail 9/Density 10/Angle 45/Colour your light background colour.

49. Effects/Artistic Effects/Coloured Edges/Using the following settings. Luminance 0/Blur 0/Colour your Dark foreground colour/Intensity 1. (Change the Intensity Setting to 2 if you want a less dense lace effect)

50. Deselect

51. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using the following settings:- Bevel 2/Width 31/Smoothness 100/Depth 9/Ambience & Shininess 0/Colour white/Angle 315/Intensity 50/Elevation 38. You can adjust the Ambience setting until you are happy with the result. Add to your presets the same as you did the first bevel and name it SL Bevel 2/OK/OK again.

52. Effects/Plugins/Mezzy/Dusty/Using the following Settings. Intensity 65/Contrast 0. (I use this filter because it gives a nice sheen to the finished product but if you don't have it you can skip this step)

53. Selections/Select all

54. Selections/Modify/Contract 3 Pixels

55. Selections/Invert

56. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with pattern 1

57. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using preset 1

58. Deselect.

59. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom

60. Layers/Merge/Merge all Flatten

You should now have this:-

61. Image/Add Borders 15 pixels/Symmetric

62. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the border

63. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 2

64. Selections/Invert

65. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow/Same settings as previously used

66. Repeat Drop Shadow changing the Vertical and Horizontal Settings to Minus 2. Leave all else the same.

Deselect

67. Image/Add Borders/3 pixels/Symmetric

68. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the Border

69. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 1

70. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel Using preset 1

71. Selections/Invert

72. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout

73. Deselect.

74. Image/Add Borders/18 Pixels/Symmetric

75. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the Border.

76. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with Pattern 1

77. Effects/Artistic Effects/Enamel/Keeping the same settings

78. Effects/Plugins/Simple Filters/4 Way Average

79. Effects/Artistic Effects/Coloured Edges/Same Settings

80. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/Preset 2

81. Selections/Select All

82. Selections/Modify/Contract 3 Pixels

83. Selections/Invert

84. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with Pattern 1

85. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using Preset 1

86. Deselect

87. Image/Add Borders/15 Pixels/Symmetric

88. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the Border

89. Flood Fill Tool/Flood fill with Pattern 2

90. Selections/Invert

91. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow/Same Settings as previously used

92. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow/Changing Vertical and Horizontal to Minus 2

93. Deselect

94. Image/Add Borders/3 Pixels/Symmetric

95. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the Border

96. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 1

97. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel using Preset 1

98. Selections/Invert

99. Effects/3D Effects/Cutout

100. Deselect

101. Image/Add Borders/33 pixels/Symmetric/in a bright colour not contained in your image.

102. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Same settings as previously used/Select the border.

103. Layer Palette/Right Click on your background layer and select/Promote Background Layer.

104. Press Delete on you Keyboard

105. Selections/Promote Selection to Layer

106. Selections/Invert

107. Selections/Modify/Contract/3 Pixels

108. Selections/Invert

109. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 1

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

111. Effects/Artistic Effects/Enamel/Same settings as previously used.

112. Effects/Artistic Effects/Coloured Edges/Same Settings as previously used

113. Deselect

114. Image/Mirror

115. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/Using Preset 2

116. Effects/Plugins/Mezzy/Dusty/Same settings as previously used

117. Selections/Select All

118. Selections/Modify/Contract 3 Pixels

119. Selections/Invert

120. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill Selection with Pattern 1

121. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/Using Preset 1

122. Deselect

123. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom

124. Layers/Merge/Merge all Flatten (This is the completed size of your image. The next border becomes part of the background)

125. Image/Add Borders/15 Pixels/Symmetric

126. Selection Tool/Magic Wand/Select the Border

127. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 2

128. Selections/Invert

129. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow/Same settings as previously used

130. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow/Changing the Vertical and Horizontal Settings to Minus 2/All else the same.

131. Deselect.

132. Layers/New Raster Layer

133. Add your watermark if desired then Merge/Merge all Flatten

Your Frame is now complete. Save as a Jpeg with the compression set at 25. Close this image.

To Create the Side squares and Background.

1. Open a new Raster/Transparent Image/ 68 x 68 Pixels

2. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 1

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

4. Effects/Artistic Effects/Enamel/Same Settings as previously used

5. Effects/Artistic Effects/Coloured Edges/Same Settings as previously used

6. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/Preset 2

7. Effects/Plugins/Mezzy/Dusty/Same settings as before

8. Selections/Select all

9. Selections/Modify/Contract 3 pixels

10. Selections/Invert

11. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with pattern 1

12. Effects/3D Effects/Inner Bevel/Preset 1

13. Deselect

14. Image/Free Rotate/Free checked/45 degrees/Right/All Layers Checked

15. Image/Canvas Size/Increase the width of your canvas to 1024 (adjust to your own screen resolution). Increase the height to 197/Placement click on the centre left arrow. This should give you 50 pixels above and below your diamond.

16. Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow using the following settings:- Vertical 2/Horizontal 3/Opacity 60/Blur 10/Colour Black/Shadow on New Layer not checked.

17. Layer/Duplicate

18. Image/Mirror

19. Move Tool/Click on your Duplicate Diamond and move it with the left arrow on your keyboard 17 clicks. Alternatively move it inwards 17 pixels.

20. Layers/Merge/Merge Visible

21. Layers/New Raster Layer

22. Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom

23. Flood Fill Tool/Flood Fill with Pattern 2

24. Layers/Merge/Merge all Flatten.

Save as a Jpeg with the compression at 25.

Assemble in Letter Creator Placing the side square and background image in the body section and Tiling. Set your text at 110 Left and 110 Right. Place the Framed Image in the Header Section placed Centre. Complete your footer details and save.

Created using a light background and changing the Colour Edges Intensity Setting to 2 to give a lighter Lace effect

Use Different Shapes to create the frame. Change your colours to create the background colour of your choice

Achieve different effects by adjusting the Coloured Edges Intensity and Luminosity Settings.

This was achieved by using Simple Four Way Average as well as Top Left Mirror after filling the border with the pattern, Rotating the image and using Top Left Mirror and then altering the settings in Coloured Edges until I found an effect I liked. It doesn't show too well because the image has been reduced but the dots are shiny gold.

This tag was made, like the header above, using a preset shape and filling with pattern 1 on which I had used Simple Four Way Average then adjusting the settings in enamel and coloured edges until I found something I liked.

There are many more things you can do with this tutorial and I hope I have given you some ideas for your next creative venture.

Have fun.

I hope you have enjoyed this tutorial. Let me know Here

©Tricia

March 7th 2006