Teak Wood Frame Tutorial.

Teak
Wood
Frame
Tutorial

Here is a simple Teak Wood Frame with Gold Font Corners 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.
Please choose a photo that you like, or perhaps a graphic of a scene
that will look good under your 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: Beginner

1. Save the "Teak wood" image to your hard drive by right clicking on it and save it in a folder where you can easily retrieve it.

2. Click on the "Color Options pallet." Change your background color to Beige ["#FFE4B5"] and your foreground color to white. ["#FFFFFF"].

3. I have included an image on the right showing the layers pallet for illustration purposes.

4. Open new image, width="300" height="350", 16.7 million colors, Transparent. We need a "Transparent" base layer for our final PSP Frame.
5. 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 above.] Name this layer "color."
6. 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." We will use the "white color" for now to help see our work. We will remove it later before we are finished.

7. Open your "teak wood" graphic."

8. Return to your main image. Add another layer and name this new layer "Border." Click on the "Flood Fill Tool" and in the "Tool Options Pallet," change the setting from "Solid color" to "pattern."
9. Left click on the "middle tab" of the "Tool Options pallet" and scroll down until you find the "teak wood" image.

10. Left click on the "border layer" of the main image and the "Teak wood" pattern will flood fill this layer."

11. Go to "Selections/select all." The "Marching Ants" will surround the outside of the Border image.

12. Go to "Selections/modify/contract" and when the "Options box" pops up, type in contract by 20. Click Ok. The "Marching Ants" will move in by 20 pixels from the outside edge. Hit the "Delete key" and the center of the teak wood will disappear, leaving the white color showing through. Deselect by going to "Selections/select none" or by pressing the keys "Control+D" together.

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 "teak_frame1.psp." Make sure that you save it in the ".psp extension."

13 Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," and click anywhere on the "white center." The "Marching Ants" will appear.
14. Go to "Selections/invert" and the "Marching Ants" will now surround the Teak wood "Border."

15. Go to "Image/effects/inner bevel" and select the following settings. "Inner bevel" ; width=2; Smoothness=10; Depth=2; Ambience=0; Shininess=30; Color=white; Angle=315; Intensity=40; Elevation=40." Click Ok.

Now to save your work again. Go to "File/save" and your work will be updated in the same name of "teak_frame1.psp."

16. Open a new image W="100" x H="100", 16.7 million colors, "Black." We are going to create our "corners" using a fancy font. We need a "black background to see our work. 17. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." and add a layer and name it "Font."
18. Click on the "Text Tool" and in the "Text Tool Options box" that opens choose the following. Font="CommercialScript BT"; size="35"; color="white"; text="B"; click Ok. 19. Click on the "Mover Tool" and position the letter "B" base in the center of the black image as shown on the right.

20. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." The "Font 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 Font layer" will overlap the "Font layer."

21. Go to "Image/flip" and the "copy of Font layer" will now appear.

22. You have 3 layers now. "Layer 1"; "Font layer" and "copy of Font Layer". Turn off "layer 1" by clicking on the small glasses to the right of the "layer heading." A red cross will appear on the "small glasses."
23. Go to "layers/merge/merge visible." You will see that now you have two layers. "layer 1" and the layer named "merged."
24. The "merged layer" heading will be highlighted in a blue color. Right click on the "merged layer" heading and in the "Options box" that pops up, left click on "Properties" and rename the highlighted heading "Corner."

25. Turn "Layer 1" on again by left clicking on the "small glasses" and the red cross will disappear.

26. Click on the "Magic Wand Tool," open your "Tool Options Pallet" and choose the following settings. "RGB Value; Tolerance=0; Feather=0." 27. With the "Magic Wand," left click on one of the "B's." The "Marching Ants" will appear.
28. 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. The "Corner B's" will now be a rich "Golden Color." 29. While the "Marching Ants" are still around the "Corner," go to "Edit/copy."

30. Return to the main image of our "Teak frame."
31. Click on the "Layers Option Pallet." We have 3 layers. "Layer 1" [transparent layer]; "color layer" and the "Border layer." Make sure that you are on this border layer. The heading "Border" should be highlighted in blue.

32. Add a new layer and name it "Corner 1."

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