Creating a Picture Frame
For PSP6
mirror for Destiny's Designs
Open a new image, 500 x 400, 16 million colors, transparent.
Go to Preset Shapes tool, elipse, stroked, line width 10, antialias checked, color white. Place cursor at 250,200 and draw elipse to 420,290.
Select the elipse with your magic wand, All Pixels, 0 Tolerance, 0 Feather.
While it is still selected, flood fill with either color or a pattern, or use a Blade Pro preset. Just experiment until the elipse is how you want it.
Selections, invert. Flood fill with color or a pattern. Deselect.
Add a new raster layer. Make a rectangle selection, antialias checked. Start the selection at 25,25 and select to 350,450. Invert and flood fill with color or pattern. If using a solid color, add texture.
Add a new raster layer, go to Preset Shapes tool, rectangle, line width 5, and in a contrasting color, draw around where you just flood filled. Select it using your magic wand, All Pixels, 0 Tolerance, 0 Feather.
Go to Images, Effects, Drop Shadow and use the preset Groove.
Make sure the last layer you added is the active one, and then go to Layers/Merge Visible. You may buttonize it at this point, if you wish.
Save as a .pfr file in the Frames folder of PSP6.
To assoiate a file format, you must first to to File/Preferences/File Associations.
Find PSP file extension, highlight it, click on button Extensions.
Click on Add, type in the file extension, click ok and you are done assciating. You will have to actually type in the .pfr extension.
Voila! You have made a frame you can use in your PSP6 program!
Now go and experiment...and have fun!
