This tutorial is my own creation, any resemblance to another tutorial is purely coincidental.  I made it using PSP 7 but it should  work in PSP 8.

For this tutorial you will need Xenofex.  I used Xenofex 2 but you can get similar results with Xenofex 1.
Click Here to download my mask and corner brush.  Put the mask in the PSP Masks folder and the brush in the PSP7 Brushes folder.   PSP8 users need to go to File/Import/Custom brush to make it available (Thanks Ginny ; ).

Right click on the image and 'Save Picture As'.

Step 1
Open the image.  Set your background color to the green in the bottom left corner of the image and the foreground color to the tan in the top right corner.  Here are the colors I used.  Right click and save if you want to use the same colors.  If you are using  a different graphic, select 2 midtone colors from the graphic.  Dark or bright colors don't work well for this.  Add a new raster layer and flood fill it with the tan color.   Go to Masks/Load from disk and apply SPtreebranch.msk  Select Masks/Delete and click 'Yes'.  Now apply Effects/Inner Bevel with the default settings for Metallic.  See below.  Merge All (flatten).

Step 2
.  Now we will be using the little arrows to switch between the foreground and background colors.  Starting with green as the background add a border of 2, switch colors and add a border of 2 with tan.   Continue swithching colors and repeating the borders of 2 until you have a total of 5 (3 green and2 tan).  Go t Selections/Select All then Selections/Modify/Contract by 10.  Selections/Invert.  Apply the same Inner Bevel as in step 1.  Selections/Select None.

Step3
  Switch to tan background and add a 25 pixel border.  Select the border and apply Xenofex 2/Little Flluffy Clouds with the settings below.  Notice that on the Camera and Sky tab that NOTHING is checked. 

  OR Select the border and apply Xenofex 1/Little Flluffy Clouds with the settings below.

Step 4
Repeat step 2

Step 5
Add a new raster layer.  Use the brush tool and select the custom brush SPcorner.jbr and set the size to 115, color set to the same tan we used for the wide border.  Add the top right corner and adjust it so it is straight.   Now, X out the background image (with the little eye glasses) and duplicate the corner layer.  Go to Images/Flip and then Merge Visible the two layers.  Duplicate the merged layer and then Images/Mirror.  Merge Visible these 2 layers.  Turn the background image back on.

Step 6
   Apply the same Metallic Inner Bevel to the merged corners layer as we used before.  Add a small drop shadow with the numbers below.  Repeat the shadow with      -1 vertical and -1 horizontal.

That's it!  You did it.  Now you can Merge All (flatten) and save.

  The beautiful image below was created by Night Owl . Visit her site and check out  her wonderful tutorials.

This lovely creation is by Katie. You can find her very talented designs HERE.

I hope you enjoyed doing this tutorial.   I would love to hear from you and see some of your creations.

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