Simple Frames

These tutorials are written for PSP versions 8 & 9 and any similarity to other tutorials on the net is purely coincidental. You are welcome to copy the link to my tutorials to your groups. My tutorials assume you have a working knowledge of PSP.

There are 3 pages on the frames tutorials, you'll find the links to next pages at the bottom of the page. I will keep adding to these slowly but surely.

Please note these aren't really tag tutorials, it's more about how to and to give the tools to create tags of your own..

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me

Let's get started

Open a new canvas 500 x 500 pixels, transparent background

First of all you need to decide on the colours you want to use for your frames.

In the example I have a red outline and background colour alternately black and white.

Find your preset tools and choose the rounded rectangle. Set your foreground colour. This will be your outside frame for all the layers. Choose the background colour and make a note of the colour (if you use another colour than black or white)..

Step 1

Go to your preset tools and find the rounded rectangle.

Set the width at 7 and try to draw a rectangle that is as square as possible.

Add a new layer and change your background colour to a different one and draw a second square inside the first one

Add a new raster layer and change the background to the same colour you used in your first frame and draw a third square inside the second one. Find the raster layers in your layer palette and delete them. You should now have 3 vector layers. Right click on each and convert to raster layer.

Step 2

Highlight your bottom layer and with the magic wand click inside the frame - go to Selections and Invert.

Now add Inner Bevel with these settings