WHAT YOU WILL NEED

Super Blade Pro - HERE

Gregs Factory Output V2 - HERE

This file containing the Blade Pro Preset (it had no name on it but I do not claim it as my own) and the Mask which came from Jans Designs visit her great site she has the best masks around 

Sanco Knotty Gold Preset for Blade Pro (I already had this one uploaded for another tut)

 

1. Open up a new image 300 x 350 and flood fill it any colour you like, I chose #AE0E18

2. Have your background set on white and add a border size 2

3. Select the border with your magic wand, Tolerance and Feather both set on zero

4. Once you have the ants marching around go ---> Effects ---> Plugins ---> Super Blade Pro (actually it's Blade Pro you should use) and apply the sanco knotty gold preset or use one of your own

5. Select none

6. Set your background colour to the same colour you used to flood fill your image as in step 1

7. Add a border size 15

8. Select this border with your magic wand and go ---> Effects ---> Noise ---> Add 15 Uniform

9. Keep selected and go ---> Effects ---> Plugins ---> Gregs Factory Output V2 ---> Pool Shadow ---> leave all the settings as they are except for the last one, change this to 232

10. Select none

11. Repeat steps 2, 3 and 4

12. Select none

13. Change your background colour back to the same colour you used to flood fill your image and add a border size 35

14. Select this border with your wand then go ---> Layers ---> New Raster Layer

15. Don't deselect anything yet............ ---> Masks ---> Load from disk---> find and apply the jd-mask163

16. Flood fill the mask white then go ---> Masks ---> Delete ---> answer yes to the box that pops ---> Select none

17. Selections ---> Select All ---> Selections ---> Float ---> Effects ---> Plugins ---> Super Blade Pro (Blade Pro!!!) ---> apply the gold glitter preset

18. Keep selected and apply this drop shadow

Vertical & Horizontal 2  Opacity 65  Blur 2.5

19. Layers ---> Merge ---> Merge Visible

20. Background set on the colour you chose in step 1, add a border size 2

21. Change the background colour to white and repeat steps 1, 2 and 3 (this must be wrong - do 2, 3 and 4 !!!)

22. Again set your background the colour you used in step 1 and add another border size 20

23. Repeat steps 8 and 9

24. Select none

25. Background colour set on white add a border size 5

26. Select the border with your wand and apply the Blade Pro sanco knotty gold preset again

27. Select none..........

 

What you do now is up to you, you can either do as I did and add a tube to the center of your image and add some writing  or you can add another layer and make this your bottom layer (first you will have right click on your other layer and "promote to layer" once you have your new layer at the bottom highlight layer 2 (this is the one that has your image on it) using your magic wand, Tolerance 25 Feather 0 click in the center of the frame and hit the delete key once, you can now insert any image of your choice into this selection or just save it as a frame.... dress it up with some corners and your all done !

I hope you enjoyed this one

*s*

 

 

 

 

Tutorial copyright ©Sandee

November 2002