Masked Side Border with Texture

Donna Ann
2004

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Needed for this Tutorial:

PSP7 or 8 (this was written using PSP8)
FM Tile tools
Simple Filters
ICNet Filters Unlimited 2.0
Mask of your choice
Tube of your choice

**You can get these filters HERE

In PSP, Open your chosen tube.

With the eyedropper tool pick a light

color from your tube for your main

background, and a dark color from your tube

as a background for your tube. Then shrink

your tube.

Make a New Image, 1024 X the height of your tube.

Flood Fill with the lighter color.

Effects/Plugins/ICNet-Filters Unlimited

2.0/Paper Texture/Japanese Paper, with the default settings.

Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick Tile. Then shrink this image.

Re-activate your tube.

Image/Canvas Size/ Add about 25 pixels to the width measurement.

(This allows room for the mask without covering your main tube image.

Click on the Mover Tool and move your tube to the far left.

Layers/Add new Raster Layer
Flood fill this new layer with your darker contrasting color that you picked out earlier

Effects/ICNet-Filters Unlimited

2.0/Paper Texture/Japanese Paper with the default settings as you did in step 5.

Effects/Plugins/Simple/Quick Tile, as you did in step 6.

Layers/Arrange/Send to Bottom.

Highlight the layer that the Tube picture is on, and add a drop shadow if desired.

Layers/Merge/all Flatten.
Layers/Promote Background Layer.
16. Effects/Plugins/FM Tile Tools/Seamless

Tile: Vertical CHECKED. (This will help keep lines from showing then tiled in Letter Creator.

I use the minimum seaming I can so it does not distort your tube picture)

Layers/Load/Save Mask/Load Mask from Disk

Choose the mask of your choice.

Apply-Layers/New Mask Layer/From Image

Layers/Merge all VISIBLE.

Right click on your image/copy.

Activate your larger background image, and Paste as a New Selection.

With your Mover tool Move your tube image to the far left.

While still selected--
Effects/3D Effects/Drop Shadow with the same settings as before.

Select/Select None.
Select/Select All/Modify/Contract 4.

(This step helps get a seamless look when finished).

Image/Crop to Selection.

Add your Watermark if desired.
Layers/Merge/Merge All Flatten

Assemble in Letter Creator

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