A nice rectangular picture, max 350 pixels in hight

Mask Here

Bordermania

VM Extravaganza

Put the mask in your mask folder.

Open your picture and choose a dark color from your picture as your foreground color

Set your background color to White. When your picture is larger then 350 in height is, resize it first

Let's get started!!!

Don't forget to save often

1. Rightclick in your layerpalet on your background layer and go to Promote background layer

2. Selections / Select All

3. Selections / Modify / Contract with 50 pixels

4. Selections / Invert

5. Effects/ Reflection effects / Kaleidoscope

6. Effects / Plugins / VM Extravaganza / Transmisssion

7. Selections / Promote selection to layer

8. Layers / Load/Save mask / Load mask from disk and find Ingerbgwithmaskfig01

9. Layers/ Merge / Merge group

10. Activate Raster 1 and push once on the deletebutton of your keyboard

11. Add a new raster layer

12. Layers / Arrange / Bring to top

13. Fill this layer with your dark color en change the blendmode to Hard light

14. Selections / Invert

15. 3D effects / Cutout

16. Add a new raster layer and repeat the cutout from step 15,

But change Vertical and Horizontal to -2

17. Layers / Merge / Merge down

18. Selections / Modify / Expand with 25 pixels

19. Selections / Invert

20. Effects / Plugins / Bordermania / Frame II

21. Selections / Invert

22. Selections / Modify / Select selection borders

23. Repeat Bormania / Frame II

24. Select none

25. Merge layers visible

26. Image / Canvas size and change your width and height to 650 pixels,

placement is Center

27. Duplicate your merged layer and activate the bottom layer

( so your merged layer is the active one and not the copy of)

28. Effects/ Geometric effects / Perspective-vertical

29. Duplicate and Image / Flip

30. Duplicate and Image / Rotate / Free rotate

31. Move the frame down and to the right, until the corner of the bottom frame is covered

32. Duplicate and Mirror

33. Layers / Merge / Merge down

34. Activate your Eraser

35. Erase the top sticking out corners

36. Erase also the sticking out corners at the bottom

37. Activate your top layer and apply the following dropshadow

Change Color to your dark color

38. Hide this layer by clicking on the eye and activate one of the other layers

39. Merge layers visible

40. Repeat the dropshadow from step 37

41. Unhide your top layer

42. Merge layers visible

43. Activate your Crop tool and make an selection area around your creation

44. Double click inside your selection to remove all unneeded space

45. Add a new rasterlayer and fill with white

46. Layers/ Arrange / Send to bottom

47. Put your watermark or name on your image

48. Save as JPG

And you are Done!!!

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