Louis XIV Frame
(PSP 8, 9 & 10)
A tutorial by Mar © 2003

What you need:
PSP 8. Download a 30 trial here.
The  ZIP with materials here.
Unzip MD-Gold-1 Pattern and MD-Louis-corners and open in PSP.
An image. I used Miranda by Sir Frank Dicksee.
Maybe a pair of sunglasses but I think you have your own LOL.


© Sir Frank Dicksee ~~ Miranda

Save often.

Let's go. Good luck.....

1. Open a new image 300 X 300 > Transparent.

2. Foreground style to pattern and look for the MD-Goud-1 Pattern.

Fill your image.

3. Image > Canvas size to 500 X 500.

4. Go to your Scripts and find > Large mosaic.

Click the blue arrow to run the script.

Click OK if you see next screen.

5. Tools on Selection.

Preset Octagon and Replace Modus.

6. Draw a selection on the gold, start at the top left.
Make sure it fits your gold background.

7. Selections > Invert.

Hit delete to remove the corners.

8. Selections > Expand with 25 pixels.

9. Effects > 3D effects > Inner bevel.



Color to #F6EA9.

Apply.

10. Selections > Invert.

Hit delete to remove the inner part.

11. Click with your wand outside the frame.

Fill selection with MD-Goud-1 Pattern.

12. Repeat Mosaic script.
Click OK again on the screen you will see.

13. Selections > Modify > Contract 25 pixels.

Hit delete to remove the inner part.

14. Open your image and Copy.

Paste into selection.

15. Effects > Reflection-effects > Pattern.

You can adjust each pattern to your
image by clicking the dice, not satisfied,
hit undo and try again.

16. Selections > Invert.

Effects > 3D effects > Drop shadow.

Repeat at - 7.

17. Selections > All.
Selections > Modify > Contract 25 pixels.
Selections > Invert.

18. Repeat the inner bevel.
Same settings except you have to change width and ambiance.

You can save this frame to your frame folder now.

19. Click your wand in the middle of your image.
Selections > Modify > Expand 5 pixels.

20. New layer.

Copy your image.

Paste into selection.
Keep the selection.

21. In your Layer Pallet > Move this layer below your frame layer.

22. New layer.

Effects > 3D effects > Cut out.

23. New layer.

Repeat the cut out but Vert. and Horiz. at - 8.

Merge all layers.

24. Open the MD-Louis-corner (zip).

Copy and paste as a new layer.

25. Move   to top left corner.
Make sure it connects to your shadow edge.

26. Duplicate.

 Image  > Mirror.

27. Duplicate.

Image > Flip.

28. Duplicate.

 Image > Mirror.

29. Merge all layers.

30. Preset shapes   > Find Octagon.



Width at 10. Retain style unchecked.
Background locked. Click with your color picker in
your pattern. Choose a dark color as your foreground color.

31. Draw an octagon over the white border of your frame.
With you can resize to make it fit.

32. Repeat inner bevel.
Same settings, width 10 and Ambiance at 55.

33. Merge all layers.

Your  Louis XIV Frame is done.
I hope you did like this Frame and learned new things from this lesson.

For the examples below, I did start
a new image 350 X 350 i.s.o. 300.
 I did use the dice to find matching patterns.


Image: © Edmund Blair Leighton ~~ Trisian


© Sir Frank Dicksee ~~  Elsa

This tutorial is written and designed by Mar and therefore her property.
 

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Translation into English with help of my best friends, Trudie.
Thanks sweetie! Couldn't do it without you.



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