Winter

Lisette and Karin have given me their approval to translate this tut into English for them. Thank you ladies! (((Hugs / Knuffel))), Croidin

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


Needed:

  • Filter Amphisoft(DEMO) which can be found: here
  • Eye candy 4000: here
  • Filter unlimited here
  • Filter Graphics Plus: here
  • Fm Tile Tools: here

Preperations:

  • Open a nice image
  • Duplicate it twice (shift D) and lower one from view. Close the original
  • Choose a background color from your image
  • Copy your image, with Edit / Copy. Do not forget this!!!!!!!!!!!



1. Image / Add borders, symmetric with size 5. Select this border with your Magic Wand

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



3. Image / Add borders, 25. Click with your Magic wand on your border


4.Edit / Paste / Paste into selection


5. Effects / Plug-in Filters / AmphiSoft / Out of the noise.

Slide ‘Radius’ all the way to the right and set the other options as in the above example. Do not pay too much attention to the numbers, as they vary with the size of your image



6. Image / Add borders, 5, with your chosen color.

Select your border with your Magic wand


7. Effects / Plug-in Filters / Eye Candy 4000 / Corona. Adjust the color on this filter to one that fits your image. Pay attention to BOTH check marks!! Dare to play with the ‘Glow width’ settings



8. Effects / 3D effects / Inner bevel, same settings

9. Image / Add borders, 35. Select your border

10. Edit / Paste / Paste into selection

11. Effects / Blur / Gaussian blur, 26

12. Selections / Invert

13. Effects / Drop shadow, settings: 2, 2, 73, 9.4 and repeat with -2, -2, 73, 9.4

14. Image / Add borders, 5, chosen color. Select border

15. Repeat ‘Inner bevel’

16. Image / Add borders, 45. Select border

17. Edit / Paste / Paste into selection


18. Effects / Plug-in effects / AmphiSoft / Out of the noise, upper slide all the way to the right again


19. Effects / Plug-in effects / IC Net Software / Filters unlimited / Tile and mirror / Mirrored and scaled. And repeat this filter one more time


20. Image / Add borders, 5, chosen color as background color. Select the border


21. Apply the ‘Inner bevel’ again, same settings


Finish your image by resizing it to your likings.


For the background image:



22. The background image was made from the copy of your initial image (the one you lowered from view). Resize it to 200 x 200 (maintain aspect ratio UN-checked, of course!).


23. Effects / Blur / Gaussian blur, 26.


24. Effects / Plug-in filters / Graphics Plus / Panel stripes, with ‘Stripes destiny’ set to 37, and the rest as is.


25.Effects / Plug-in filters / FM Tile tools / Seamless, both slides on 500 (or 0.500)


Put it in your scroll in Outlook Express by going through Format / Rich text (HTML), and then Format / Background / Image, and search for the name of your image.

Greetings from Lisette and Karin

(And greetings too from their translator, Croidin).