Gold Lattice Frame Tutorial.

Gold
Lattice
Frame
Tutorial

Here is a simple Gold Lattice Frame for you to make and add to your PSP Frames
collection. This tutorial involves the use of layers and the instructions are set
out so that it is very easy to follow.
The photo is of one of my grandaughters and is watermarked and may not be used
by any one else. Please choose a photo that you like, or perhaps a graphic of a scene
that will look good under your Gold Frame.

This tutorial was designed in PSP 6.02 and can be completed in other
versions with some adjustment. Have fun.
Copyright © by Harold E. Jones .. 2001-2002.

Level of difficulty: Intermediate

1. Open new image, width="100" height="100", 16.7 million colors, Transparent. We are going to make the lattice tile to start. 2. Click on the "Color Options pallet." Change your background color to Beige ["#FFE4B5"] and your foreground color to white. ["#FFFFFF"].
I have included an image on the right of the layers pallet for illustration purposes.

4. Click on the "Drawing Tool," open your "Tool Options Pallet" and select the following settings. "Type=Single line; Style=Stroked; width=3; antialias=checked; Create as Vector=unchecked; Close Path=unchecked." 5. Now starting at co-ordinates W=0 x H=0, draw a line diagonally down to co-ordinates W=100 x H=100.
6. Using the same "Drawing Tool" and settings, draw a series of lines as follows. Second line: Start at co-ordinates W=20 x H=0 and draw down to W=100 x H=80. Third line: Start at co-ordinates W=40 x H=0 and draw down to W=100 x H=60. Fourth line: Start at co-ordinates W=60 x H=0 and draw down to W=100 x H=40. Fifth line: Start at co-ordinates W=80 x H=0 and draw down to W=100 x H=20.

7. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." The "Layer 1" heading will be highlighted in a blue color. Right mouse click on this heading and a "Options box" will pop up. Left mouse click on "Duplicate." You will not see anything happen as the "copy of layer 1" will overlap "layer 1."

8. Go to "Image/rotate/rotate left=180 degrees" and the "copy of layer 1" will now appear.

9. You have 2 layers now. "Layer 1" and "copy of layer 1". Go to "layers/merge/merge visible." You will see that now you have only one layer named "merged."
10. The "merged layer" heading will be highlighted in a blue color. Right mouse click on this heading and a "Options box" will pop up. Left mouse click on "Duplicate." You will not see anything happen as the "copy of merged layer" will overlap "merged layer."
11. Go to "Image/rotate/rotate left=90 degrees" and the copy of the merged layer will appear.

12. Go to "Layers/merge/merge visible." You will now have one layer and it is still named "merged." Right click on the "merged layer" heading and in the "Options box" that pops up, left click on "Properties" and rename the highlighted heading "Lattice."

13. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," open your "Tool Options Pallet" and choose the following settings. "RGB Value; Tolerance=0; Feather=0." 14. With the "Magic Wand," left click on one of the "Beige lines." The "Marching Ants" will appear. Go to "Selections/modify/select similar" and all the "Beige lines" will be surrounded by the "Marching Ants."
15. Go to "Image/effects/sculpture" and select the following settings. "Presets=Gold; Size=100%; Smoothness=10; Depth=3; Ambience=0; Shininess=46; Color=white; Angle=315; Intensity=30; Elevation=56." Click Ok. All of the lines will now be a rich "Golden Color." 16. Deselect. Go to "selections/select none." [or press the keys "cltrl+d" together] The "Marching Ants" will disappear.

17. Now is the time to save your work as this will be your "Lattice pattern" to be used both in this lesson and in many others.

18. Go to "File/save as" and name this image, "Gold_Lattice.psp." Make sure that you save in the .psp extension so that the "Background" remains transparent."

19. Open new image, width="350" height="350", 16.7 million colors, Transparent. We need a "Transparent" base layer for our final PSP Frame.
20. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." The "Layer 1" heading will be highlighted in a blue color. Add a new layer by clicking on the "small folders" in the top left hand corner of the "Layers Option Pallet." [see illustration at the start of this tutorial.]

21. Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" and in the "Tool Options Pallet," make sure that your option is "Solid color." Right click on the center of the "Color layer" and the layer will be flood filled with "White."

22. Add another layer and name this new layer "Lattice." Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" and in the "Tool Options Pallet," change the setting from "Solid color" to "pattern."
23. Left click on the "middle tab" of the "Tool Options pallet" and scroll down until you find the "Gold_Lattice" image.

24. Left click on the "Lattice layer" of the main image and the "Gold lattice" pattern will flood fill this layer."

Now would be a good time to save your work and save it often so that you do not lose all your hard work if anything should go wrong.

Go to "File/save as" and save your work as "Gold_frame1.psp." Make sure that you save it in the ".psp extension."

25. Add a new layer and name it "Border." Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" and in the "Tool Options Pallet," change the setting from "Pattern" to "solid color." Left click on the center of the "Border layer" and it will be completely filled with the "Beige color."

26. Go to "Selections/select all." The "Marching Ants" will surround the outside of the layer."

27. Go to "Selections/modify/contract" and when the "Options box" pops up, type in contract by 10. Click Ok. The "Marching Ants" will move in by 10 pixels from the outside edge. Hit the "Delete key" and the center of the Beige color will disappear, leaving the lattice showing through. Deselect.

28. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," and click anywhere on the "10 pixel beige border." The "Marching Ants" will appear.

Now to save your work again. Go to "File/save" and your work will be updated in the same name of "Gold_frame1.psp."

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