**Lisette and Karin have given me their permission to translate their tuts into English for them (and us all). Thanks a lot, ladies… ((((Hugs / Knuffel)))), Croidin.**
**Croidin, thanks again for your wonderful work , hugs lisette, karin, nadia **

Needed:

• Filter Amphisoft: here

• Filter FM Tile Tools: here

• Zipped mask: here (put the unzipped mask in your ‘masks’ map for PSP)

Preparations:

• Open your image

• Duplicate your image 2 times (Shift D). Close the original, and hide one of the two duplicates from view for later use

• Take a very light color from your image as your foreground color, and take a very dark one as your background color

Image:

1. Image – Resize, resize your entire image so the height of it will be 290 pixels, so make sure the option ‘maintain aspect ratio’ is checked

2. Layer (palette) – New raster layer. Flood fill this layer with the light (foreground) color

3. Masks – Load from disk, L&K2.msk

4. Selections – From mask

5. Effects – 3D effects – Outer bevel, set to metallic and intensity at 30

6. Masks – Delete, and ‘yes’ to question

7. Image – Add borders, 2 (Answer ‘yes’ to making your image a single layered one. The border will have your dark color). Select this border with your magic wand

8. Effects – 3D Effects – Inner bevel, metallic, ok

9. Change your colors so the light one is now the background color. Image – Add borders, 20. Select this border with your magic wand

10. Effects – Plugins – Amphisoft – Thread master, set the slide to maximal (depending on your chosen image) and checkmark ‘across edges’

11. Selections – Invert

12. Effects – 3D effects – Drop shadow, 2 times: with 2,2,60,25 and with -2,-2,60,25

13. Image – Add borders, 2 with the dark color (flip colors first). Select with your magic wand

14. Effects – 3D Effects – Inner bevel, metallic, ok. Selections – Select none

Background:

Activate your other duplicated image.

1. Image – Resize, width 1024 and height 350

2. Effects – Plugins – Amphisoft – Thread master, length slide set to maximal

3. Repeat this once more

4. Effects – Plugins – FM Tile tools – Seamless tile, ok

Copy and paste your first image onto this background, as a new layer. Place it where you like it best and merge all layers visible.

Done!

Greetings, Lisette and Karin (and their translator, Croidin).

Picture used: Public Domain artist Andreas Achenbach (Title: Morning in the Pontinian Marches), posted at www.artrenewal.org