Making your own Frames for
Paint Shop Pro 6 & 7
This is the frame that the tutorial will make
There are more Frames at the bottom of the page
The main purpose of this tutorial is show how to make your
own Frames for Paint Shop Pro.
Once you know how to save them you can make your Frames without
using other peoples
Remember to save often in PSP format until
we are done, then we will save it as a Frame
You may use any graphic or Texture. I used the preset Sculpture
Mahogany
on one of them it looks great (at the bottom)
This is VERY IMPORTANT .. these frames are made large so that you
can use them for real
pictures. Most of the ones that come with PSP are either 8x10
size or 5x7 size. We will make
this one is 5x7 size.
PLEASE NOTE !! ... After making your frame and saving it for yourself,
DO NOT send it in to your
group under the same format that you will save it as. Also
save it as RESIZED (smaller), make sure you
are viewing it under NORMAL VIEW so you can see the true size.
Save it jpg to send in to your group.
 Right click on
this graphic to save to your computer.
After saving double click on it to bring it up in PSP. You
may shrink it after you are working in PSP but you must have it there
so the flood fill can find it. |
#1 .. Open new image at 360,504 .. 16 million colors, transparent
background. (according to how much space you have in your workspace you
may see this as small or as the normal view .. go to VIEW, and make sure
you work in normal view so you can see what your frame looks like as you
are working.
#2 .. Flood fill 
your new image with the Cork graphic that you saved. (you may use your
own if you like)
PSP7 .. Hold your Left mouse button down on the 1st style button under
the color pallet until you see this window 
choose the image icon (circled in red) .. now click on the graphic on the
style button and it will bring up another window, use the push bar to open
the images that are in there. Choose the one that says cork.
Left click on your working window and it will flood fill with the cork
pattern. Left hold on all of the other style buttons and put them
on NULL or NO style.
PSP6
.. Click on your flood fill tool, in your tools option box choose pattern.
Click on the second page of the tool options box and then use the pull
down menu to find your cork pattern. Left click on your working window
to flood fill it with the cork pattern.
#3 .. Go to Selections, select all. (do not
deselect until the tutorial calls for it)
#4 .. Selections, Modify, Contract, 15, Click
OK
#5 .. Selections, Invert
#6 .. Apply the Inner Bevel Preset, Round (change
the DEPTH to 3)
PSP7 .. Effects, 3D, Inner bevel
PSP6 .. Image, Effects, Inner bevel
#7 .. Selections, invert
#8 .. Click your Copy tool 
.. Now click delete your keyboard.
#9 .. Right click on the top of your working
window and choose Paste as new Layer. This will put it right back where
it was but you will be able to apply a bevel without it deforming any of
the other bevels.
#10 .. Go to Selections, Modify, Contract 25,Click OK
#11 .. Go to Selections, Invert
#12 .. Apply the same inner Bevel as in step #6 .. Change the DEPTH
to 12 and SHININESS to 25
#13 .. Go to Selections, Invert
#14 .. Click on your copy tool, then delete on your Key board, Then
paste as new layer just like you did in step #9.
#15 .. Go to Selections, Modify, Contract 13
#16 .. Hit Delete on your Keyboard
#17 .. Go to Selections, Invert
#18 .. Apply a Bevel like you did in step 6, this time Use the Preset,
FRAME.
#19 .. CTRL D on your keyboard to deselect.
#20 .. Go to Layers, Merge, Merge Visible
This should be your frame (yours could be really different if you
used another graphic .. the main purpose of this tutorial is how to save
the frame:)
This was mine
for this Tutorial, I made it smaller so the page would load faster .. Now
to save it.
#21 .. Go to FILE, SAVE AS .. Navigate to your PSP Folder, double
click on it, Now find your FRAMES folder. In the pull down menu where
you choose the type of file you are going to save as , CHOOSE PAINT SHOP
PRO (*.psp,*.jsl,*.pfr,*.tub) You must be in this file save format in order
for it to save correctly.
Type in Cork as the name you are going to save it as (you may use
uppercase letters here) The type that you are going to save is pfr
(lowercase letters) .. VERY IMPORTANT .. YOU MUST type in the name of your
frame AND THE EXTENSION NAME .. MAKE SURE YOU PUT THE (PERIOD) between
the name and the extension. Mine was saved as Cork.pfr .. Click on
Save
#22 .. Go to IMAGE, click on Picture Frame .. when that window comes
up make sure that your new frame is there with the name you chose.
If it is not then follow the steps again as you may have missed one in
saving.
To send to your Groups
Once you know that your frame works then you can save the one still
on your screen to as a jpg to send to the group that you belong to.
You may want to resize it first.
 Go
to Image, Resize .. make sure that you have the items that I have circled
here checked. Then all you have to do is enter a number in the first
box (highlighted here) 150 maybe a little small for you to show off
what you did (that is what mine was set at for this tut:) a good
size would be about 250. If you don't like it then you can CTRL Z
to undo it. If you are not going to send a picture to your
group but just the frame, then go to Layers, Merge, Merge Flatten.
That will make it even smaller in size. |
More Frames I made
These frames are actually smaller than what I saved them as
frames.
Graphic made by Dee
This tutorial is Copyright © 2000, 2001 by Sherrie all
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it may not be copied or reposted in any way without express
written permission of Sherrie.
