Pretty Gold Frame Using a Mask
This glitter masking technique is quite similiar to Jan's Gold Mask tut, although it differs in how I glittered the mask. The background is the actual gold glitter; it came from her download on the tut page. PSP6'ers can just save the jpg wherever you keep your flood patterns; PSP7'ers can convert the jpg to a bmp and save it in your PSP7's patterns folder if you think that you'll be using it frequently (see note at bottom for silver glitter). I've also used her masks from here, any ornate mask would probably work also. I used mask #3 for my
WEC. This page's image uses mask #24.
Here is
a Silver Glitter Mask tutorial that goes into MUCH more detail if this
page doesn't go into enough for you *S*
Take a pretty picture, resize if needed before anything else. Click eyedropper and right-click on a pretty color. Add symmetrical borders of 40-60 depending on how large your mask will be (I have to use the undo key alot if I don't know how big the mask I choose is going to be).
Add a 2nd layer, flood fill with the gold glitter pattern.
Add your mask to the 2nd layer (glitter):
Masks | Load from Disk
and surf to where you keep your *msk files and pick one. I am always confused by the invert or no-invert part, so I just use default settings and manually toggle it if necessary:
Mask | Invert
Once it looks good, duplicate 2nd layer three times, turn off visiblity of first layer and
Merge | Merge Visible.
Add a med dark brown shadow (click on the colors in the shadow box, pick orange from the outer circle, then pick a nice brown from the inner box).
V&H 1; Blur 2: opacity 70-80.
Select magic wand and click on inside of mask,
Selections | Expand 2
Selections | Feather 10-20 (depends)
Selections | Invert
Click on layer 1 to activate it, then use delete key (or Edit | Clear)
**Note: if layer 1 is labeled background in your layers palette, turn it into a layer by right-clicking and choosing Convert To Layer...OR just double click on it.
Add a new layer and do what you do to place it on the bottom of the layers palette (I drag it with my cursor). Select paint bucket, and press on Ctrl key while hovering over a pretty color (see how it turns into an eyedropper when the ctrl key is held down...it does this for all the paint tools, paint brush, color replacer, spray can, and pencil tool). Now flood fill your bottom layer with your color you chose.
You can choose your next steps; I texturized the bottom layer (I don't like psp's texture thing in the styles palette since it doesn't give the control of the texturizer plugin). I haven't tried it yet, but maybe one of the mosaic effects might look really nice too.
Frame how you wish. I merged all, added symmetrical borders of 3 (color doesn't matter if you choose to fill it with the gold glitter pattern, as long as it is a contrasting color). I think this group knows how they wish to proceed from here 8-)
I turned the gold glitter black/white and saved as GlitterSilver.bmp in my patterns folder and it works very nicely too. It also requires duplicating the mask layer three times.
shreela@NOSPAMdirecway.com
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