Since this is a pretty graphics heavy tutorial, I thought I'd put the final turn on a separate page, since there are a couple of pretty good sized images left.

Now for the Piece de resistance: the big fella- the Godzilla of all Photoshop…

Filters-(duuu duh!)

Run and hide! No, come back! Here's what I set everything to:

Next comes the sole commercial filter of the whole pack: PhotoBevel Solo. You can probably fake your way around this one, but check this out anyway. This is one t-riffic plug in! First, the settings…

Really pretty isn't she? But we need to do another thing to add more dimension to our work: Shadows!

Set colors to default black & white by clicking the b&w squares on the toolbox. Make two new layers below the girl. Ctrl-click the girl to select her. Then on the new layer below her, hit Alt-Backspace to fill the selection with the Foreground color (black). On the new layer below that, hit Ctrl-Backspace to fill the selection with white. Blast the white fill with a Gaussian Blur (I used 8.2 pixels distance), and the black fill with a reduced Gaussian blur (I used 4.0 here. Half of the white blur works pretty good). I also nudged the black fill down and to the left a couple of pixels using Ctrl + the up & down arrows.

Next Ctrl-click the stroke ring. Make a new layer and fill the selection with black. Duplicate that layer. Blur the dupe layer, and nudge both layers down and to the left (again using Ctrl-Up & Down arrows). Then go to the top layer, and select the areas outside the ring. Activate these black fill rings you just got through making and nudging and hit the delete key. This will trim any excess that may sneak out from under the frame.

And finally, activate the picture for a Lens Flare with 50-300mm zoom at 82% brightness. Save the image and that's it!

Woo Hoo! Remember to save this beauty in PSD (Photoshop format) unflattened, so you can, if needed put another image in the frame! It's so easy with layers!

If you'd like to put this beauty on a wallpaper, just make a new image the size of your normal screen resolution, and paste it on there!

This background was made with a bunch of Gaussian noise that was tinted with a color at 40% through the edit menu. Then I applied the Rough Pastel filter and then twirled it a little. It's a cool wave! There are two copies of the background layer. The bottom layer was tweaked to a blue with Hue Saturation, and the other copy was left at the original lavender color. I painted on a mask on the lavender layer (actually I painted most of the lavender layer OUT) using various airbrushes and selections. I also inverted the mask. The picture was drop-shadowed just the same way that I showed you above.

Thankyuhthankyuhvurruhmush! Enjoy!