POST & TOP SIDE BORDER

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Tools needed to complete this tutorial:-

Paint Shop Pro V 8

A graphic of your choice.
The graphic used for this tutorial has been used with permission from the very talented
© Beverley Lu who has kindly allowed me to use her artwork in my tutorials.

If you have everything you need, let’s begin.

1. Open your graphic and resize so that it is no wider than 350 pixels. Graphics that are bigger in length than width will work best with this tutorial.

2. Shift + D twice. Close the original and minimize one of the copies for now.

   BACKGROUND

3. Adjust, Blur, Gaussian Blur and use a setting of 15.

4. Effects, Artistic Effects, Posterize and use a setting of 20.

5. Effects, Image Effects, Seamless Tiling and use the following settings:-
   • Corner checked.
     
   • Bidirectional checked.
     
   • Curved checked.

6. Minimize your background for now and maximize the 2nd copy of your graphic.

   SIDE BORDER

7. Right click in your layer palette and promote background layer.

8. Duplicate this layer.

9. Image, resize and resize by 90%, all layers Unchecked.

10. Selections, select all.

11. Selections, float. Selections, defloat.

12. Selections, invert.

13. Highlight raster 1 in your layer palette.

14. Effects, Artistic Effects, Topography and use the following settings:-
    • Width:       20
      
    • Density:       8
      
    • Angle:       45
      
    • Color:       White

15. Highlight copy of raster 1, effects, 3D Effects, Drop shadow and use the following settings:-
    • Vertical:       2
      
    • Horizontal:       5
      
    • Opacity:       65
      
    • Blur:       5
      
    • Color:       Black

16. Repeat drop shadow using the following settings:-
    • Vertical:       -2 (minus)
      
    • Horizontal:       -8
      
    • Opacity:       45
      
    • Blur:       10
      
    • Color:       Black

17. Deselect.

18. Merge visible.

19. Image, canvas size and use the following settings:-
    • Width:       1024
      
    • Height:       Total of your graphic + 25
      
    • Placement:       Left middle arrow.

20. Using your mover tool, move your main graphic a little to the right away from the edge of our transparency.

21. Effects, 3D Effects, Drop shadow and use the same settings as last used, but change the vertical and horizontal to 2 and 8 (not minus).

22. Add a new layer.

23. In your color palette, change your foreground to pattern, and using the drop down list, search for the background pattern that we made earlier.

24. Flood fill the new layer.

25. Layers, arrange, send to bottom.

26. Lower the opacity so that it will be easier to read text.

27. Add a new layer for your watermark.

28. Merge all, flatten.

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