Country Quilt Frame

SUPPLIES:

Tube and corners

Filters: VM Distortion and Simple Filters

1. Open new transparent image 400 x 400.

2. Set foreground to color #8ca08c and background to color #d2b8b0.

3. Floodfill image with foreground color.

4. Copy and paste tube as new layer and duplicate.

5. With original tube layer activated, Effects || Plugins || VM Distortion - Tilomat 2000.

Copy and paste as new image and minimize. Go back to the image you're working on.

6. Set layer opacity of original tube layer (middle layer) to 34.

7. Activate copy of tube (Top layer) and apply drop shadow.

8. Crop image.

9. Add a symmetric 3 pixel border, select with magic wand and flood fill with foreground color.

10. Invert selection and apply cutout.

11. Repeat cutout changing V/H to -2.

12. Select none.

13. Add a symmetric 3 picel border, select with magic wand and flood fill with background color. Select none.

14. Add a symmetric 20 pixel border, select with magic wand and paste into selection. (You should still have the tilomat layer there to paste, if not, open up the new image you made and copy it and then paste into selection.)

15. Apply same cutout as before and select none.

16. Add a symmetric 3 pixel border using your background color.

17. Add a symmetric 3 pixel border using your foreground color.

18. Open up the LBCorners tube and select a corner of your choice with the freehand lasso tool. Copy and paste as a new layer onto your image.

19. Position corner with mover tool and duplicate layer - flip.

20. Merge down and duplicate later and mirror.

21. Merge down. Select all - float -defloat.

22. Apply inner bevel.

23. Apply same drop shadow as before. Select none.

24. Add text if desired.

25. Save and done!

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