B & W Piano Frame
(PSP 8)
A tutorial by Mar © 2004.

What you need:
PSP 8. Download a 30 day trial here.
RCS Filterpak: Download here.
ZIP with materials: Download here.
Unzip the filter in your Plugin folder in PSP.
Close PSP and restart. If you don't the filter won't work.
A nice black and white image. 
I used one from Ben Christopher © (in ZIP).
A color image will work fine too. You have to pick two colors
from your image (see pink sample at the end of this tut).
Here my result in a script.

Save often
Let's get started....... Good Luck!
 

Open your image in PSP. Shift D and close the original.

Foreground color to white (#FFFFFF).
Background color to black (#000000).
Or choose 2 colors from the image you use.

Add borders > 5 Pixels > Yellow (or another bright color).

Select the yellow  border (feather 0).
Foreground style to gradient.
Choose fore-background gradient.

Notice!! This time the repeats set to 3.
Later on in this tutorial we will change that to 5 and 7.

Fill your border.

Effects > 3D-effects > Inner bevel.

Effects > 3D-effects > Drop shadow

Repeat but Horiz. and  Vert. at - 2.

Add borders > 20 Pixels > Yellow.

Select the yellow  border and fill with white.

Effects > Texture effects > Weave.
Both colors set to black.

Effects > image effects or.... geometric > offset (PSP 8 only).

Selections > None.

Zoom in at the right top corner of your picture.
Click the + (plus) key on your number keyboard.

Your background set to black.
Select the part that is an duplicate from the image.
Start with the top. Make sure your selection fits. Click delete.
If there is any leftover from the picture, select again and delete again.
Leave the grey bevel as it is.

Now select the part on the right. Click delete.

The right top corner has to have a black fill now.

Add borders > 5 Pixels > Yellow.

Select the yellow  border.

Fill with the gradient but set the repeats to 5.
Repeat the inner bevel.
Repeat the drop shadow  at  2 and - 2.

Add borders > 30 Pixels > Yellow.

Select  the yellow  border and fill with black.

Effects > Plugins > RCS Filterpak > TripleExpoure at 165.

Effects > Edge > Enhance more.

Add borders > 5 Pixels > Yellow.

Fill with the gradient but set the repeats to 7.
Repeat the inner bevel.
Repeat the drop shadow  at  2 and - 2.

Selections > None.

Open the MD-rosecorner.psp from the ZIP and copy.

Paste as a new layer.

With place in the left bottom corner.

Layers > Merge all flatten.

Your B&W Piano Frame is done.
I hope you did like it.
Thanks for using my tutorials.


This lesson is nominated 08-09-2004 as
de 'Featured Tutorial of  the Month' by Fly-by-Night.
Thank you Fly by Night.
I am so honored to receive this award.

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Translation into English with help of my best friends, Trudie.
Thanks sweetie! Couldn't do it without you.



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