1. Open the main image and duplicate once. Close original.

2. Click on Selection Tool

Choose Ellipse from the drop-down menu Antialias checked

3. Place the cursor on the highlight of the ballerina's cheek and holding down the left mouse button, draw your ellipse.

Don't worry if your ellipse is not placed like the example above. When you have finished drawing the ellipse, move your selection into place by:

Selecting the Move tool, and holding down the right mouse button, drag the ellipse to completely encircle the ballerina.

4. Click on the small arrow pointing right on the Styles Box

Click Pattern on the fly-out box

Click in the styles box again (Not on the Small arrow)

Then click on the downward pointing arrow Under "Current Pattern"

Select the gold pattern, scale 100%, Angle 0

Click OK

5. Add a new Raster Layer

6. Flood Fill with the gold pattern

Click on Selections, Modify, Contract, set 3 for the Number of Pixels

Click on OK

Hit the Delete Button on your Keyboard

Your image should look like this:

Choose Selections, Modify, Expand by 3 Pixels

Click OK

Click layers, Merge, Merge Visible

Keep the ellipse selected (Marching Ants)

7. Click on the arrow on the Styles box

Choose Patterns

Click in the Styles Box again, and choose the Background

pattern from the

drop-down menu. - Scale 100%, Angle 0

Click OK

8. Open a new Image just a little larger than the ellipse.

I chose Width 334 Height 222

Flood Fill with the Background pattern

9. Highlight the original image

Select Edit, Copy

10. Highlight the new image

Select Edit, Paste As New Layer

Close the original image

Your new image should look like this:

Select Layer, Merge, Merge All (Flatten)

11. Set the Background color to White (#FFFFFF)

Choose Image, Add Borders, Symmetric checked, 3

Click OK

13. Click inside the white border with the Magic Wand (Tolerance 0, feather 0, Sample Merged Unchecked

14. Repeat Step 4

With the marching ants around the white border, Flood Fill with the gold pattern

15. Choose Selections, Invert

16. Click on Effects, 3D Effects, Cutout

Use the following settings:

Vertical: 2 ...... Horizontal 2

Opacity 60 ......Blur 6

Shadow Color 000000 (black)

Fill Interior with Color ......"Unchecked".

Click OK

Repeat the Cutout, changing the Vertical and Horizontal Offsets to -2

Selections, None

17. Repeat Step 7

18. Choose Image, add borders, symmetric checked, 15

Click OK

19. Repeat Step 13

20. Flood Fill the new border with the Background Pattern

21. Click on Effects, Plug-In Filters, Greg's Factory Output V11, Pool Shadow

Use the Default Settings

Click OK

Selections, select None

22. Repeat Step 4

23. Choose Image, add borders, Symmetric checked, 3

Click OK

24. Select the new border with the Magic Wand (use the same settings as before)

Flood Fill with the gold pattern

25.Choose Effects, 3D Effects, Inner Bevel, with the following settings:

Click OK

26. Repeat Steps 22, 23 and 24

Choose Layers, Merge, Merge All (Flatten)

27. Add a new Raster Layer

27. Select the Paint Brush Tool

Click on the small paintbrush in the upper right corner on the

Tool Options Palette

Select Custom from the drop-down menu

Click on the downward pointing arrow

Find our brush and click on it

Use the following settings:

Click OK

28. With the Gold Pattern still showing in the Styles Box, Align the brush in the upper left-hand corner of your image

29. Holding your hand very still, click the left mouse button 4 or 5 times or until the brush is as gold as you want it

29. Choose Effects, 3D Effects, Drop Shadow, and apply using the following settings:

Vertical 1 ...... Horizontal 1

Opacity 94 ...... Blur 1 .1

Shadow color 000000 (Black)

Open the Layer Palette

Right-click on layer 2, and choose Duplicate

31. Select Image, Mirror

32. Right-click "Copy of Layer 2" duplicate

Select Image, Flip

33. Right-click "Copy of Copy of Layer 2" (the top one) and duplicate

Select Image, Mirror

34. Select Layers, Merge, Merge All (Flatten)

35. Resize if necessary

If you Resize) Effects, Sharpen, Sharpen **(See note below)

And you are finished!

**Optional Step:

As the image is a little dark, you may do the following to it to brighten and clarify a bit. . If you choose to do this optional step, then don't do the final 'sharpen' above, do it with this step. . . . . . . . . .

Colors/Adjust/Brightness/Contrast

Set as follows:

Brightness=14

Contrast=6

Then:

Effects/Sharpen/Sharpen

Effects/Sharpen/Unsharp Mask

Set as follows:

Radius 3.54

Strength 2

Clipping 5

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