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Welcome to Graphic Distractions.
Spent a while online looking for a frame one
day .. for another tutorial I was writing .. and got the bug to
make my own. Well I spent a little bit online looking for a good
tutorial that explained how to save a frame so that it could be
used in paint shop .. could be I was just not looking in the
right place, but finally I just got frustrated and figured it out
on my own ... this is the results.
Supplies:Paint Shop Pro 7:
To the best of my knowledge this will work in 6 as well.
Super Blade Pro or Blade Pro: The preset will work in either
filter.
Zip of
Supplies: This file contains the preset needed and the bmps
used with them (nk -princess.q9q, nk -pincess.q5q, white.bmp, and
nk - pattile2.bmp). Super Blade Pro uses the q5q file extension;
Blade Pro has a q9q file extension. Unzip the preset that will
work in your filter to the environments and textures folder for
that filter .. and don't for get the bmps too. The preset comes
from NK Designs
... she has some of the most gorgeous presets I have seen online
.. and I hope that you will take some time after the tutorial to
visit her place.
Lets play ....
1). Open a new image 700 x 700 transparent. The reason for such a
large size is that when paint shop applies a frame it will apply
it to the size of the image you wish to frame .. and i have found
that letting paint shop size it down ... instead of up .. makes
for a better result. Also i needed this frame this size for the
companion tutorial that follows this one.
2). Set your foreground color to white and flood fill the
image.
Because there is no center image to work around in this one, we
are going to have to work from the outside in .. instead of
adding borders to an existing image. There will be allot of
flopping back and forth between layers .. but once the concept is
understood it is really rather simple.
3). Go to Selections/ Select All
4). Go to Selections/ Modify/ Contract and place a 12 in the box.
Because of the size of the image we are working with... it might
take a little bit for paint shop to make the select.
5). Go to Selections/ Invert
6). Set the foreground color to black and use the Flood Fill Tool
to flood the selection with black.
7). Go to Effects/ 3D Effects/ Inner Bevel and use these settings
...
8). Go to Selections/ Promote to layer. Leave selected.
9). Go to the layer pallet .. there will be two layers now. Click
on the bottom layer to make it the active layer.
10). Hit the delete key. Deselect. Leave this layer active in the
layer pallet.
11). Using the magic wand, with tolerance set to 0, click once in
the white to select it.
12). Go to Selections/ Modify/ Contract and place a 35 in the
box. It might take a bit to complete.
13). Go to Selections/ Invert
14). Go to Selections/ Promote to layer.
15). Go to the layer pallet .. there will be three layers now.
Click on the bottom layer to make it the active layer.
16). Hit the delete key. Deselect - very important.
you wont be able to see, just by looking at the image, that the
layer is there ... but trust me it is.
17). Go to the layer pallet and click on the second layer to make
it the active layer.
18). Go to Selections/ Select All
19). Go to Selections/ Float
20). Go to Selections Defloat
now you should be able to see the marching ants running around
the new layer we promoted.
21). Go to Effects/ Plugins and Filters/ Flaming Pear/ Super
Blade Pro and apply the nk - princess preset. Deselect.
22). Go to the layer pallet and click once on the bottom layer to
make it the active layer.
23). Use the magic wand and click once inside the white part of
the image.
24). Go to Selections/ Modify/ Contract and place a 15 in the
box.
25). Go to Selections/ Invert
26). Go to Selections/ Promote to layer. Leave selected.
27). Go to the layer pallet and click once on the bottom layer to
make it the active layer .. then hit the delete key. Deselect -
very important.
28). Go to the layer pallet and click once on the layer just
above the bottom ... as shown below.
Almost done now ..
29). Go to Selections/ Select All
24). Go to Selections/ Float
30). Go to Selections Defloat
Now you should be able to see the marching ants running around
the new layer we promoted.
31). The foreground color should still be set to black, but if it
is not ... please do so now. Now flood will the selection with
black. Leave selected.
32). Go to Effects/ 3D Effects/ Inner Bevel and use the same
settings as we did for the other black section. Leave
selected.
33). Go to Effects/ 3D Effects/ Drop Shadow and apply the
settings shown below .. Leave selected.
34). Apply the same drop shadow again .. only this time changing
the vertical and horizontal to -4. Deselect.
35). Go to the layer pallet make sure the bottom layer (the white
center) is active. Then go to Layers/ Delete. The center white
section will now disappear.
36). Go to Layers/ Merge/ Merge Visible.
Below shows the full size .. upper left corner of my frame.
Now we will make this into a pfr file so that paint shop can
apply it to images we would like to frame.
32). Go to File/ Save As. Save the file to the Frames folder of
the Paint Shop Pro 7 folder. The pathway for that is normally ..
C:\Program Files\Jasc Software Inc\Paint Shop Pro 7\Frames. The
file must be saved as a Pfr file .. just type in what you would
like to name the frame plus the extension. For example, when the
Save As box popped up I typed in metal-lace-GD.pfr
That is all there is to it .... simple isn't it? .. was so
surprised at just how simple.
To use the new frame you made ....
1). Open the image you wish to frame.
2). Go to Image/ Picture Frame
3). Select the frame you made from the drop down menu.
4). The next step will ask if you want the frame inside or
outside of the image. It will give you a preview of each way ..
so that you can pick they one you like.
5). It will then add the frame as a separate layer to your
image.
Done. Hope that you have enjoyed this tutorial .. if you have any
problems or questions, please use the email button below and I
will do what I can to help.
lilly
I hope that you enjoy your stay, and thank you for visiting Graphic Distractions.