Now we are ready to add the final outside frame. Make sure your dark green colour is the background and that you change your paint fill option back to a solid colour rather than the green leather tile. Because our image has two layers, you will either have to "Merge all - flatten" now OR you can go to image- Add Borders and the computer will give a pop up message, where if you click yes, the computer will do it for you. You are going to add a uniform border of 30. Using the magic wand, click on this border area so we can add the leather look to it. You will follow exactly the same steps that you did on the previous page. PSP7 users can go to texture-fine leather, and non PSP7 users can go and floodfill it with the leathertile pattern. Leave the marching ants there. Your image should now look like the image below.

You are now going to add Effects - Inner Bevel and use these settings. The only ones that have changed are the width and depth (the ones highlighted with the red numbering). All the remaining can stay the same.

Do you remember the poor green lady sitting quietly at the bottom of your screen?? Now is the time to open the image and get ready to put her in her new home. As you can see so far, this frame could be used for any image you have. It is not just a frame that goes strictly with this picture. What you must do now is click on the lady image to make it the active one and go to "edit - copy" or do the shortcut - "control" and "c". Click on the frame to make it the active image and then go to "Paste - as a selection" or take the shortcut and do "control" and "e". She is movable and you can use the arrow to move her into position in the inner frame. She will fit exactly because we started with her dimensions. When in position, left click, and then deselect to remove the marching ants. Your picture and framing are now complete.

I hope you have found this to be a useful tutorial. It can be used in many ways and if you go to the next page, you will see other variations I have done. I am also going to display below another leather tile that you can copy to your hard drive. It is the pale green leather. It might also help being a lighter colour if you want to experiment and colourize it. You can change it to any colour you want to match the image you are using. I did that to show you on one of the examples on the next page. If there is anything you are not sure of or you need help with any of the steps, please email Pat and I will be glad to offer any assistance.

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