Tea for Two Frame Tutorial
The lesson was written for PSP X
by Woven
The Bold writing are the keyboard shortcuts for each action.You may or may not need to have the [ F lock ] on your keyboard activated for these to work

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Requirements for this lesson

Right Click on image below and save for use in the lesson.
Provided Image
The Image I received in a power point presentation a short time ago if I knew the photographer's name I would credit him/her with it here.


Tea for Two Frame Instructions

  1. Open the above image (or one of your choice of similar size and proportion) in PSP.
  2. Duplicate Image Shift + D and close original preserving it in original condition.
  3. Repeat the dupliction 2 more times minimise these 2 for later use.

    Now using the image that is still open -
  4. Select your Dropper Tool E and Left Click on a medium dark colour (select from the predominant colours of your image in this instance the orange shades) for your foreground colour. Then Right Click on a lighter colour (from any area) for your background colour.
    I chose HTML code #7c2434 for the foreground and HTML code #c85a67 for the background colour, but you choose whatever you like.
  5. Effects>Reflections Effects>Kaleidoscope>Horizontal Offset (minus) -73; Vertical Offset (minus) -87; Rotation Angle 172; Scale Factor 15; Number of Petals 14; Number of Orbits 2; Radial Suction 81; Wrap>OK.
    2nd Image After Reflection Effects.
  6. Minimise this image for later use - then restore one of the copies you made to make it the active one.
  7. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 2; Right click on colour swatch and select Black for colour>OK>OK.
  8. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 5; Right click on colour swatch and select your Dark colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  9. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 8; Right click on colour swatch and select your Light colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  10. Select your Magic Wand Tool from Left Menu>Mode Replace; Matrch Mode RGB Value; Tolerence & Feather 0;Contiguous and Anti-alias Checked; Inside.
  11. Click inside your new Light colour border you just made to select it.
  12. Effects>Textures>Blinds>Width 3; Opacity 37; Horizontal & Vertical Checked;Right Click on colour swatch>Left click on other and change HTML code to #ece9d8>OK>OK.
  13. Selections>Select None ( Ctrl + D )
  14. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 5; Right click on colour swatch and select your Dark colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  15. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 2; Right click on colour swatch and select Black for colour>OK>OK.
    Border so far.
  16. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 21; Right click on colour swatch and select your Dark colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  17. Select your Magic Wand Tool from Left Menu>Mode Replace; Matrch Mode RGB Value; Tolerence & Feather 0;Contiguous and Anti-alias Checked; Inside.
  18. Click inside your new dark colour border you just made to select it.
  19. Click on your Kaleidoscoped image and copy it Ctrl + C - then minimise it again.
  20. Click on Image you are building and Paste into Selection Ctrl + Shift + L
  21. Adjust>Sharpness>Sharpen. Do this 2 times.
  22. Selections>Select None. Ctrlt + D
    Border after Kaleidoscope added.
  23. Repeat Steps 7 thru 15 again here.
    Border after Repeat Steps.
  24. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 35; Right click on colour swatch and select your Light colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  25. Select your Magic Wand Tool from Left Menu>Mode Replace; Matrch Mode RGB Value; Tolerence & Feather 0;Contiguous and Anti-alias Checked; Inside.
  26. Click inside your new Light colour border you just made to select it.
  27. Go to Materials Pallete and Left Click on the Foreground Colour Swatch>Select Gradient; Angle 0; Repeats 45; Invert Unchecked; Style Radial; Horizontal & Vertical 50; Texture Unchecked; Click on Gradient colour swatch and select Foreground/Background>OK.
  28. Select your FloodFill Tool on left tool menu F and flood fill the new light border with the gradient.
  29. Selections>Invert.
  30. Effects>3dEffects>Drop Shadow>Vertical & Horizontal 1; Opacity 100; Blur 20.00; Shadow colour Black; Shadow on New Layer Unchecked>OK.
  31. Repeat but change Vertical & Horizontal to (minus) -1.
  32. Selections>Select None. Ctrlt + D
    Border after gradient and dropshadow.
  33. Layers>Merge>Merge All (Flatten).
  34. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 2; Right click on colour swatch and select Black for colour>OK>OK.
  35. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 5; Right click on colour swatch and select your Light colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  36. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 8; Right click on colour swatch and select Dark for colour>OK>OK.
  37. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 5; Right click on colour swatch and select your Light colour from bottom left corner of the Pop Up>OK>OK.
  38. Image>Add Borders>Symmetric; size 2; Right click on colour swatch and select Black for colour>OK>OK.
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  39. Layers>New Raster Layer.
  40. Add your watermark.
  41. Layers>Merge>Merge All.

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