Lisette and Karin gave me their permission to translate this tutorial for them into English. Thanks a lot Ladies, for this. (((Hugs/Knuffel))), Croidin.

Thanks Croidin for all your wonderfull work, hugs lisette en karin.

Needed:

• Filter Factory Gallery E (Gradient/Spokes ratio maker): here (place it in your ‘plugins’ map of PSP)
  
• IC Net software (Filters Unlimited): here
  
• Use a horizontal image or the one we used: here
  
• Texture L_K70: here
  

About the horizontal image:

• Take an image (wider as high), with the main image “reasonably in the center”!!!!!!!!!!!
  
• Images with a lighter background did not come out as pretty
  
• Duplicate the image with “shift D”, so we have 2 of them
  
• Put one of these down for a while, until we need it for the background
  

Highlight image number 1

1.Click on your ‘selection’ button, or S on your keyboard

2.Set your ‘selection type’ to circle, with ‘feather’ to 0

3.Draw a circle around your main image, choosing the part you want to keep visible

• Do not draw the circle too big, nor too small
  
• Everything outside this circle will become less visible, so choose your selection well
  

4.Selections / Invert

5.Effects / Plugins / Filter Factory Gallery E / Gradient/Spokes ratio maker, set to 130

6.Selections / Invert

7.Edit / Copy

8.Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

9.Selections / Select none

10.Click on your ‘Move tool’ (or M on your keyboard)

11.Move your new circle a little aside, but not too much! (make sure the parts you want to keep visible are behind this circle)

12.Selections / Select all

13.Selections / Float

14.Selections / Invert (if the message “the selection must be defloated” appears, choose “ok”)

15.Set your foreground color to ‘white’ or choose a color from your image

We’re going to flood fill a texture onto a layer:

• * If you want to make a lighter layer, choose ‘white’
  
• * Or take a basic color from your image
  
  

Try this out, and choose what you like best:

1. Click inside your chosen color, so the ‘Material’ window opens
   
2. Check the option ‘Texture’
   
3. Find the L_K70 texture
   
4. Angle 0
   
5. Scale 100
   

16.Flood fill / Fill the selection with the L_K70 texture, with these settings:

17.Go to your layer palette, and move the ‘opacity’ slide a little down

• How much? That’s really depending your own taste and your choice of color
  
• With light colors it will be little to nothing, with darker colors a bit more. Check it out yourself. We chose black, so we set it back to:
  

18.Selections / Invert

19.Hit the ‘delete’ button on your keyboard

20.Selections / Select none

21.Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

22.Image / Resize, with these settings

• 50%,
• resize all layers’
• NOT checked and ‘Lock aspect ratio’ checked):
  

23.Click on your ‘Move tool’ button

24.Move this smaller circle to a nice spot

25.Go to your layer palette: click on the ‘blend mode’ for ‘raster 2’ (* 1) (the layer on the smaller circle)

(*1) When you click on the word ‘normal’ a quick menu will open

Now you will have to decide yourself what you like best: For us it was ‘Soft light’, but may be ‘Lighten’ or ‘Screen’ are also options?:

But, if this all is not looking nice enough, and that’s possible *LOL*, then just lower the opacity for raster layer 2!!

26.Layers / Merge / Merge visible

27.Adjust / Softness / Soft focus, with these settings:

28.Edit / Copy

29.Image / Add borders, 2 (any color that is completely different from your image will be easiest, as it doesn’t matter!)

30.Magic wand / Select border

31.Edit / Paste / Paste into selection (now the chosen color will be replaced by the copied image!)

32.Effects / 3D Effects / Inner bevel, with these settings:

33.Selections / Select none

34.Image / Resize, with these settings

• height 280
• pixels,
• lock aspect ratio’ and ‘resize all layers’ checked):
  

35.Adjust / Sharpness / Sharpen

This is ready now. You can lower this image from view, until we’ll go add it to the background image we are going to work on now.

The background:

Activate your copy of your initial image

36.Image / Resize, width 1024 and height 350 with ‘maintain aspect ratio’ UNchecked!

37.Effects / Image Effects / Seamless tiling, with these settings:

38.Adjust / Blur / Gaussian blur, with radius set to 50!!

39.Effects / Plugins / Filter Factory Gallery E / Spokes Ratio Maker, with same settings as before (130)

40.Effects / Plugins / IC Net software / Filters Unlimited / Tile & Mirror / Seamless blend (vertical):

41.Layers / New raster layer

42.Flood fill, with same texture (L_K70) and same settings

43.Go to your layer palette, and lower the opacity if needed. Again… see for yourself IF it’s needed and how much, because it’s really depending on your use of colors

44.Layers / Merge / Merge visible

45.Adjust / Softness / Soft focus, with same settings as before

46.Now all we need to do is add the other picture to this background”

Activate your frame (first image)

47.Edit / Copy

Activate your background image

48.Edit / Paste / Paste as new layer

49.Do not move your layer yet, but leave it in the middle!!!!

50.Layers / Merge / Merge visible

51.Effects / Image effects / Offset, with these settings:

Done!

Greetings from Lisette & Karin,

And also greetings from their translator, Croidin.