Connies Lace Frame Tutorial
 
with the mask, brush and script you will need to do this stat.  Unzip the zip, Save the Centered image with table.htm file in a folder where you can find it later,  put the mask which is the Corner Scrolls Connie.msk in the mask folder and the brush, which is the Tut Brush Connie's.Jbr  file in the brush folder in psp and you are ready to play..  

Open a new image, transparent, 100 x 100.
flood fill with the color you want for the background of your stat.  Apply a
texture you like, please use a very fine texture or small texture so the image and tile will work well without seams.  Otherwise when the image is put on the tile background you will see where the background of the image sticks out past the frame.  Now save the tile as jpg. 
Open the tile in 20/20 and do the seamless tile on that image.  Open the tile back
up in PSP.

Open a new image, transparent, 400 x 400.
Flood fill the new image with the tile you just made.
Minimize this image for a bit.


Open another new image, transparent, 200 x 200
flood fill this image with the color you wish to have the frame.
Go to mask, load from disk and find the mask and apply it.
Go to mask, delete and say yes.
Add the inner bevel to this image with the settings below.


With the masked image still the active image, go to edit, copy.

Now open the 400x400 image up and go to edit paste as new layer.
With the mover tool, move the layer to the bottom right corner and line it
up on the bottom and side.  I leave one pixel of background showing on the side and bottom.
Now open the layer palette,  right click on the top layer which is layer 2, go to duplicate
layer.
 
  Now go to image, mirror.  Open the layer palette again, right click
on the copy of layer 2 and duplicate that layer.  Now image, flip.  Open the
layer palette again and right click on the copy of copy of layer 2 and duplicate
one more time.  Now go to  image, mirror and your frame is all in place.

Open a new image, transparent, 300x300.  Pick up your paint brush and go to the tool option bar.  Now you will see a tiny paitbrush in the upper right corner..  here is a screen shot.  You want the one that is below the wrench looking icon. 
 
A menu will open, click on the word custom.  You will now have a window open up with an image showing.  Click on the arrow beside the image and look for the brush that I sent.  It is a butterfly on some grass.  Click on that and say okay.  Your brush is now loaded and ready to use.  Just go to the new image and click and you are done with the brush. Apply the same inner bevel as you used before.

Now Edit, copy,  Now make the frame image the active image.  Go to the
layer pallete and highlight the layer 1 which has the tile poured on it.

Now go to edit paste as new layer.  The reason we did the bit about
highlighting the bottom layer is to make the new layer go on top of the bottom layer
and under the frame layers.  New layers always add on top of the highlighted
layer.  If you do this step before you add any new layers, you will get to
skip the part of moving the layer to where you want it to be.  Just a trick
I learned and found it saved me tons of time.

  Now if you want the brush image centered you do not need to move it at all, when you paste as new layer, it will be
dead center so you can leave it there if you wish.  If the image is not
where you want it to be, then just move it to where you want it.  If you want to add words, then add a new layer and put the text on this layer.  I do a layer for each word so I can move them where I want them.  I always do everything in layers so if I find I do not like something, I can delete that layer and do not have to start over with the whole project.

Now all that is left is to go to layers, merge all flatten, save your  image as jpg and you are done.
Your image is done and your tile is made, now you just add them to the
script.  I attached it too as it is very simple and works very well with
this type of image.  However, you can build the stat with the format rich text, format background, format sound, insert picture and center it or you can use the script below.  The script below was built with the format and insert method and then I added the table for the text to the script.
 
To use the script, right click on the htm file, go to edit and then just put
your image name in the part that says image and your tile where it says tile
and your midi where it says midi, change the colors for the scroll bar, table background, table border and text, and you are ready to post.  If you do not
have the option of edit when you right click  the htm file,  just double click the htm
and it will open in the browser.  Now go to view, source, you will have a notepad open with the script on it.  Go to file save as, name the stat and save it to a location where you can find it when you are done.  Make the changes to the script and
then do file save.  Put the htm, image and tile in the stat folder and you are done. 
    I am adding the script on this note with the changes marked in red so  you can see where to change things.  However use the attached htm for your real script.  The one below is just to show you where to make changes..  

If you need help feel free to email me.   chill@1starnet.com
Connie
 
<HTML><HEAD>
<STYLE></STYLE>
<STYLE type="text/css">
<!--
BODY {
scrollbar-face-color:#F3EFDF;
scrollbar-highlight-color:#F3EFDF;
scrollbar-3dlight-color:#FF6F43;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color:#F3EFDF;
scrollbar-shadow-color:#ff6f43;
scrollbar-arrow-color:#FF6F43;
scrollbar-track-color:#F3EFDF;
}
-->
</STYLE>
 
</HEAD>
<BODY
TILE.jpg"><BGSOUND
balance=0
MIDI.mid"
volume=-50 loop=infinite>
<DIV align=center><IMG hspace=0
MAIN IMAGE.jpg"
align=baseline border=0></DIV>
<DIV align=center>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV align=center>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV align=center>
<TABLE
style="FILTER: alpha(opacity=80); BORDER-RIGHT: #F09870 5px solid; BORDER-TOP: #F09870 5px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #F09870 5px solid; WIDTH: 90%; BORDER-BOTTOM: #F09870 5px solid; HEIGHT: 50%"
borderColor=#FF6F43 cellSpacing=10 cellPadding=10 align=center bgColor=#FAF8F0 border=5>
  <TBODY>
  <TR>
    <TD vAlign=top>
      <DIV align=center><FONT face=BlackChancery color=#FF6F43 size=4>Text here</DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
</DIV></BODY></HTML>