Airbrush

Art by Randy Wang
You need:
PSP Version 7.04
Border corner 2 Download HERE
1. Open an image of your choice. Resize if it is too large.
2. Set your Foreground-color on a dark color from your image (write the color-number on paper we need it later) and your Background-color on a light color from your image.
3. Image add borders 5 pixels symmetric. Select the border with your magic wand (RGB-value,Feather=0, Tolerance=0).
4. Effects/ 3D Effects/ Inner bevel with these settings:

5. Selection/Invert , Effects/ 3D Effects/ Cutout with these settings:

Select None.
6. Image add border 25 pixels symmetric. Select the border with your magic wand (RGB-Value,Feather=0, Tolerance=0), Click on your airbrush tool with these settings:

Spray with your airbrush and the Foreground-color in your border. See
screenshot:

7. Set Your Foreground-color on a color that would go well with your frame (write the color-number on paper we need it later) and spray with your airbrush in your border again. See screenshot:

8. Effects/ Blur/ Gaussian Blur with these settings:

9. Effects/ 3D Effects/ Inner bevel with the same settings as in number 4. Select None.
10. Image add borders 5 pixels symmetric. Select the border with your magic wand. Effects/ 3D Effects/ Innerbevel with the same settings as before.
11.Selection /Invert. Effects/ 3D Effects/ Cutout with the same settings as in number 5. Select None.
12. Layer new rasterlayer. Set the Foreground-color off. Click on your texttool and click in your image, Search for your border corner 2 font. I have used the lower case j size 100, antialias checked and floating checked. Hit okay.
13. Set your Foreground-color back on the dark color we have used before on the frame ( you should have written it down at the beginning ) Click on your airbrushtool and spray some here and there in your corner. Set your Foreground-color back on the light color ( you have written it down I hope) and spray some here and there in your corner. This is what you have now:

14. Effects/ 3D Effects/ Inner bevel with the same settings as before.
15. Set the corner in the rightundercorner like this:

Go to your layer palette and duplicate the corner layer 1 time, Image /Mirror. Go to your layer palette and duplicate the top layer, Image / Flip. Go to your layer palette and duplicate the top layer , Image / Mirror. If you have done that you now have in each corner a cornerfont. If you think they are not so good in each corner just move them to the place you want it.
16. Go to your layer palette and click on the imagelayer click on the glasses to shut it off. Layer / merge visible layers. Click on the layer with your image and click on the glasses your image is visible again. Click in your layer palette on the top layer the one with the corners.
17. Effects/ 3D Effects/ Dropshadow with these settings:

18. Layer / merge all layers flatten. Image resize to the size you want. Always Effect /Sharpen/Sharpen. after you have resized it.
Well done. You"re Finished
22 December 2002 © Copyright Cinderella Designs.