Your image should look like this right now.

Have your tornpaper mask (or whatever mask you want to apply) open.  Here is where we are going to apply the mask. 

First go up to Masks/New/From Image.  Use these settings.  But where it says Leaf.jpg, you will want whatever your mask is called.  Mine is called tornpaper here.

Go up to Masks, delete.  A window will pop up.  Click yes.  We want to add a new layer.  Go up to Layers, New Raster Layer.  You can name this whatever you would like.

Drag the new layer under the other layer. You want this to be the bottom layer.  Flood fill the bottom layer. I flood filled mine with white. Your image should look like this.

Go into your layer palette and activate the flower layer.  With your magic wand, select anywhere on the white area, then go to Selections, Invert. 

You should have marching ants around the masked flower image.  Go back up to Selections, Modify, Contract.  A window will pop up.  Where it says "number of pixels" make that 1. Click okay.

Now we are going to apply a drop shadow.  Go to Image, Effects, Drop Shadow.  Settings are as follows.

Go back up to Images, Effects, Drop Shadow and apply the same setting except this time vertical and horizontal are at 1.  Go up to Selections, Select None.  Your image should look something like this.

Now go up to your layer palette and active the bottom layer. We are going to apply a Blade Pro setting to this layer.

The preset I used is Wood 10.  Once you have applied your wood texture to the bottom layer, it should look something like this.

Now I personally didn't like my flower image to take up so much of the picture, so I resized just that layer.

Notice that the Resize All Layers is unchecked.
Merge all layers and you are finished.

Here is my finished masked flower image.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial! 

Tutorial by Leigh

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