To make the frame shown above you will need Paintshop Pro,  my gold gradient tile and a ding of your choice. I made this tile because Gregs Pool Shadow does not save presets and I hate having to write down the settings in order to use them again. lol

Step 1     The first thing I did was to pick out an image and resized it to a workable size.

Step 2    I set the foreground color to black and the background color to white. I also set up the background color to texture and chose my gold gradient tile.  I then added a 3 pixel border making sure it was gold. I used my magic wand and selected the white,  flood fill with the gold tile. OPTIONAL: Apply a cutout using complimenting settings. Due to the image I chose being too dark I did not apply this cutout to mine. Selected none.

Step 3     Then flipped the background and foreground colors I added another border this time 1 pixel. Make sure it's black.

Step 4     I then repeated step 2, excluding the cutout. remember to flip the background and foregrounds colors so that the border would be white again.

Step 5     Now flip back again so that black is your background color. This time add a 20 pixel border depending on how big the image is your using. Now using your magic wand select the black border and add an inner bevel with these settings,

Step 6     Now repeat steps 2-4. Deselect. At this point you may add your favorite corner ding or leave it as it is.

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