Fit for a King Frame
(PSP 7, 8, 9 & 10)
A tutorial by Mar © 2003

First the following:
Everyone who knows me, knows I'm a huge Elvis fan.
It's not my habit to put music in a tutorial.
If it bothers you, please turn off the sound.
The reason I did this, is because I dedicate this tutorial
to the best performer and singer ever... Elvis!

What you need:
PSP 7 or 8.  Download a 30 trial here.
 Eye Candy 3.1 Filter. (Free).
Extract to your folder 'Plugins' in PSP.
 ZIP with diamonds, Art and Sparkle download here.
Unzip and open  in PSP.
An image. I used this digital Elvis Art made by me,
for this tutorial. Every other image is okay.

The  © of Elvis Presley are at Elvis Presley Enterprise.
You may use my  Elvis Art but the © of the original art stay with me.
Everything you create with the help of this tutorial is yours.
If you want to place your results on a webpage, please put my banner on.

Elvis Art: 2003© Mar's Design.

Save often.
Let's go. Good luck.....

1. Open your  Elvis image or any other you like to use.
Make sure your image size is about 450 X 350.
If you have a smaller image make your borders 5, 6, 7 or 8 pixels.
Don't make your frame too dominating.
You will have ugly corners.

2. Add borders > 10 Pixels > Symmetric > Black.

3. Add borders > 10 Pixels > Symmetric > Color #3B4BCF.
If you use another picture, take a color that's in your image.
 Use the color picker.
Click in de color screen and after that in your image.

4. Repeat adding borders, but use black.

5. Repeat with color #784FAA.
Or the color you choose from your image.

6. Repeat again 10 pixels black and again with #3B4BCF.
Add a last border black.

 You have added 7 borders.
You must have this.

7. Selections > All.
Selections > Modify > Contact 70 pixels.
If you used a smaller border it's 7 times the amount of your pixels.

8. Effects > 3D effects > Cut out.

Repeat but with H and V at - 8.

9. Selections > Invert.

Effects > Edges > Enhance.

10. Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 3.1 > Inner Bevel.

11. Copy.
Selections > None.

Paste as a new layer.

Resize 75 % > All layers unchecked.

12. With move a little up, so you can see what you're doing.

13. Use Selection tool set at square.

Draw a square selection round the bottom left corner.
We use this corner because the others have to much
shininess, due to the Eye Candy inner bevel.

14. Copy.

Click undo, till this frame is gone.
Look in your layer palette.
If there's only the background layer it's ok.

15. Paste as a new layer.

Be very careful with the next steps.
Zoom in if necessary.

16. Place   the corner top right. Exactly against the black.

Zoom in, to see if it fits exactly.

17. You still have the corner on your clipboard (copy).
Paste as a new layer.

Resize at 50%.

Adjust > Sharpen > Sharpen.

Image > Mirror Image > Flip.

18. With   place the little corner in the big one.
Look if it fits exactly.
Watch the black outlines, they have to align.

19. Lock off your background layer .
Activate one of the other layers (= blue).

Merge visible.

20. Effects > 3D Effects > Drop shadow.

It looks like your corner is A-symmetric, but that's an optical illusion.

21. Duplicate this layer.

 Image > Mirror.

22. In your Layer Pallet > Duplicate.

 Image > Flip.

Duplicate.

Image > Mirror.

23. Open your background layer.

24. Open  MD-Diamonds.pspimage (ZIP).
The  diamonds and sparkles are saved as a *.pspimage but can
be opened in PSP 7 as well, because I saved them as a 7 file.

Copy and paste as a new layer.

25. With place in the top left corner.

Make sure the diamonds fit.
With you can adjust the size.

26. Repeat the duplicate > Mirror and Flip, till all 4 corners have diamonds.

27. Foreground color to #4E66FA (or a color from your image).
Background color #EF9EFF (or another color from your image).

28. Go to your material palette and set it on gradient.
Foreground-Background gradient (most of the time the first). 
Repeats 2. Angle 45. Texture unchecked.

29. Look for a nice font. I used Pepita MT (ZIP).
Stroke at  0.
I typed "Fit for a King" size 48.

If you will use another text?
With resize until it fits.

30. Place your text on your frame.
In PSP 7 > convert to raster.

Effects > 3D effects > Inner bevel.

31. Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 3.1 > Glass.

32. Effects > Plugins > Eye Candy 3.1 > Perspective Shadow.

33. With place at the top or the bottom.

34. Open  MD-sparkle.pspimage (ZIP) decorate your "Fit for a King" frame and text.

Depending what you will do with your frame, you can
resize it, if you want to. Don't forget to sharpen if you do.

Your "Fit for a King" Frame is done.
I hope you did like it and learned something in the process.

Thanks for trying this tutorial.

Elvis Art: 2003© Mar's Design.

Elvis Art: 2003© Mar's Design.

This frame is made by my dear friend
Tiny van Veelen.
"Wowww Tiny what an awesome result!"

Since 11-16-2003: