Glass Charms by BethLiz of Lizard Dau Designs

© 2008 Lizard Dau Designs. For personal use only.

This tutorial is was written by BethLiz of Lizard Dau Designs. Please do not copy, upload to any website, or claim my tutorial, or any of the graphics used as your own. Images created by you, as a result of using my tutorials, are your own to do with as you wish. If you have any questions about this tutorial or would like to obtain permission to share this tutorial, please contact me at bethlizard@msn.com for written permission. Thank you

Supplies needed for this tutorial:
Paintshop Pro (any version should work with minor changes in setings)
No outside filters or plugins required.

-first of all of course open up psp

-wait for everything to load…LOL..LOL

-Locate the picture or graphic you want to frame. The one I’m using is of my mum. You may have to resize the longest side to 1800 pixels.

-Duplicate the original and close it to work on again at another time, but keep the copy open to use in a bit.

-go to File>Open>New
You want a 6 X 6 inch (or 1800 X 1800 pixel) area to work in.

-leave it on the work space or minimize it for when you are ready to pop it behind your glass charm.

-now to make your glass charm this is what I did.

-open a second new work space about 6 inch x 6 inch at 300 pixels per inch resolution with a transparent raster background

-then i went into Effects>Artistic Effects>Magnifying Lens

-first of all you want no magnifying effect so you can change that to 0

-leave the refraction option as is

-and you want a spherical or round lens type and that should already be checked off in the green circle

-ignore the properties and illumination tabs

-then go into the frame tab and chose whatever frame type you want from the material option and the colour of the frame too

-then you are ready to click ok

-you should then have a nice round glass charm to stick your pic under

- using the Magic Wand set to tolerance=0 and feather also =0

-select anywhere outside of your frame

-Selections>Invert

-Layers>New Raster Layer

-Layers>Arrange>Send to Bottom

-Activate your image copy and then Edit>Copy

-Activate your graphic with the frame and Edit>Paste>Paste into Selection

-just a side note here you can add anything under the glass charm-
little sprinkles of glitter or confetti, small flowers just about anything!!

-and it is that easy

-here is an example of what i did with it..i made this as part of my mums
60th Birthday invitation

-pretty neat huh???

Liz