Selected Gold SB Tutorial

Things Needed:

Paint Shop Pro (This is done using 9 but other versions should work as well)

Graphic of choice (One taller than wider must be used)

My Selections and Gold Pattern Fill found Here 

(Unzip the Supplies and put the Selections in your Paint Shop Pro/Selections Folder and the Gold Pattern Fill in your Paint Shop Pro/Patterns folder)

Let's Get Started

 1.  Open up your graphic in Paint Shop Pro and duplicate once and close out original....You can duplicate it by Pressing Shift + D

 2.  You need to have a graphic that is taller than it is wide. You graphic must also be between 249 - 250 pixels wide....If your graphic is wider than this, please resize it by going to Image/Resize and make the width either 249 or 250 pixels. Make sure the "Lock Aspect Ratio" box is checked so the height will self adjust...

If you have resized it, go to Adjust/Sharpness/Sharpen

 3.  Choose one color from your graphic. This color should preferably be a medium to dark color. Set it as your foreground color...and set your background to the Gold Pattern (Angle 0/Scale 100)

 4.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel black border

 5.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel white border

 6.  Select the white border with your magic wand and flood fill with the gold pattern

 7.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel black border

 8.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel border in white

 9.  Select the white border with your magic wand and flood fill with your gold pattern

10.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel black border

11.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel white border

12.  Select the white border with your magic wand and flood fill with the Gold Pattern

13.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel Black border

14.  Image/Add Borders and add a 5 pixel border using your foreground color

15.  Image/Add Borders and add a 2 pixel Black border

16.  Layers/Promote Background Layer

17.  Duplicate this image by either hitting Shift + D or by going to Edit/Copy and Edit/Paste/Paste as a New Image (You can minimize one of these copies for right now)

18.  Selections/Select All/Modify/Contract by 21

19.  Adjust/Blur/Gaussian Blur at 10

20.  Selections/Select None

21.  Effects/Image Effects/Seamless Tiling and make

sure  Corner and Vertical are checked...