JASC's PSP (30 day free trial)- You can get it HERE
Dee's Gold Fold. You can get it HERE
**You will need to extract the D_Gold Fold to your Pattern folder within Paint Shop Pro.
Corner Brush
Seperate Font. You can get it HERE
Graphic of your choice
Before opening PSP, open your Seperate font and minimize for now. Note: The font does not have to be installed for PSP to recognize it.
Open the graphic of your choice, duplicate by selecting the Shift plus D key and close your original graphic. In this tutorial, a square image works best. If your image is not square, use the Selection tool set to square to make a selection from your image at least 230 x 230 in size. Then choose Image/Crop to Selection. If the image you use is not square, it will become distorted.
Create a new 300 x 300 transparent image.
Pick a light color from your picture and make this your foreground, then pick a darker complimentary color and make this your background.
Click on your Flood Fill tool. On your transparent image right click once to flood fill with your background (darker color).
Click on your brush tool then in your Tool Options-Paint Brush click on the paint brush and select custom, when the pop-up window appears, click on the down arrow and select a corner brush. Reduce size to 150.
On your transparent image, fill in with your brush. You should have something that looks like below.
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Reflections/Kaleidoscope with the following settings:
Horizontal offset = 20, Vertical offset = minus 47, Rotation Angle = 293, Scale Factor = minus 17, Number of petals = 8, Number of orbits = 0, Radial Suction = 67
Go to Selections/Select All. Then Selections/Modify/Contract and contract by 30 pixels. Hit your delete key once. Do not deselect.
Create a new Raster Layer. Go to Selections/Modify/Contract and contract by 5 pixels. Selections/Invert. Do Not Deselect.
Change your foreground to pattern, select the D_Gold Fold, Scale 100, Angle 0.
Making sure you're on Layer1 one, click in the center of your transparent image, this should put the "marching ants" around the outside of the gold fill.
Go to Effects/Inner Bevel. Using the Rounded bevel with the following settings:
Width = 25, Smoothness = 40, Depth = 5, Ambience = 0, Shininess = 10, Color = White, Angle = 331, Intensity = 41, Elevation = 34
Making sure you're now on Layer2, using your magic wand, click on the center of your transparent image. Activate your graphic, then go to Edit/Copy, then back on the transparent image, Edit/Paste/Paste Into Selection. Do Not Deselect.
Add a new Raster Layer. Go to Effects/3D Effects/Cutout and using the following settings:
Vertical and Horizontal: 4
Opacity = 25, Blur = 4.8
Layers/Merge/Merge All Flatten. Make your background a light grey. Then go to Image/Add Borders and add a Symmetrical 2 pixel border. Select the border with your magic wand, and flood fill with the D_Gold Fold. Selections/Select None.
Add a New Raster Layer. Switch the foreground and background making the D-Gold fill the background, make the foreground null. Clicking your Font Tool, select the Seperate Font, small "d", Size 60. Place at the top of your image. Do Not Deselect. Selections/Select None.
Go to Effects/3D Effect/Inner Bevel and using the Rounded Bevel with the following settings:
Width: 5, Smoothness: 17, Depth: 5, Ambience: 0, Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50, Elevation: 30.
Go to Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow and apply with the following settings:
Vertical and Horizontal = 0, Opacity = 25, Blur = 11.8
Resize for group requirements. Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen.
