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Ovalkaleid Frame
For this tutor to work your graphic needs to be square. We are using only psp6.02 for this one.
Open your graphic and resize and crop if necessary. I made mine 300x300. After resizing go to Image, Sharpen and sharpen it. If you want to use this graphic for a background then Shift + D now to duplicate it and set aside.
Add a layer to your graphic. With the Eyedropper tool, left click a color in your graphic to set as your foreground color.
Click on your Preset Shapes tool and in your Tool Options use the below settings.
Starting at the center of your graphic, in my case 150x150, make and oval selection something like below.
Click on your Magic Wand then click in the colored oval you just made to select just the frame.
Go to Image, Effects, Inner Bevel and use the settings below.
Making sure you're still on you're Oval Frame Layer, click on your Magic Wand Tool and click inside the frame to select the middle area.
Go to Selections, Modify, Expand and put in a 1.
Go to Image, Effects, Cutout and use the below settings.
Still on the Oval Frame Layer with the Magic Wand, click in the background (outside) area of the oval.
Go to Selections, Modify, Expand and use 1 again. Should look something like below.
Now Go to Image, Effect, Kaleidoscope and use the below settings.
You should end up with something like below.
(If you want you can copy the oval frame layer and paste as new image and turn it into a tube to use again.)
Withe the ants still active in your background area go to your layer palette and make Layer 1(graphic) active by clicking on it.
Go to Image, Blur, Gaussian Blur and use the below settings.
Go to Image, Effects, Kaleidoscope and use the same settings as before.
Layers, Merge All Flatten.
For the Background make the duplicate of your original active. Go to Image, Blur, Gaussian Blur, same settings as before. Now go to Image, Effects, Kaleidoscope, same settings as before.
Open a new graphic, 1024x300 or height of your graphic and flood fill with the duplicate. Activate our original and go to Edit, Copy. Activate your background and edit, paste as new selection. Line it up on the left and deselect.
Click on your selection tool, set to rectangle, O feather, antialias not checked. Starting at the end of the original graphic make a selection 10 pixels wide x the height of the graphic (300). As below.
Add a layer then floodfill the selction the new layer with the same color as your oval frame.
Go to Image, Effects, Inner Bevel and use the same settings as before.
Now to to Image, Effects, Dropshadow. I used the below settings.
Now click on the deformation tool.
And Stretch that 10 x 300 selection up past the top and down past the bottom, then double click anywhere outside of the selection and say yes to apply deformation. This will get rid of the dropshadow gap and any line you might get from the inner bevel at the top and bottom.
Merge All Flatten.
Sign and Save.
As alway if you have any problems just let me know.
