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[Quietus]

If you could please post a guide / tutorial on how to do this, it would be greatly appreciated! I've been searching through all the plugins / filters etc, but couldn't find anything that inserted / created frames.

Based on the Golden Text tutorial on the net.

For GIMP 2.2.10 (not guaranteed for other versions).

Part 1

1) Open a new file>142x96>advanced option>RGB color + Transparency (fill with)

2) Filter>Render>clouds>Solid Noise>ok

3) Tick Turbulent, Tile, detail: 1, X: 3, Y:3

4) Click the seed until you see a consistent cloud>ok

5) Layer>colors>auto>stretch contrast

6) Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur> V: 1, H:1>ok

7) Click the Gradient tab and pick your gradient

8) Filters>colors>Map>Gradient Map.

9) Image>flatten Image

Part 2

1) Open a new file>132x86>advanced option>RGB color + Transparency (fill with)

2) Script-fu>decor>add border>X: 5, Y:5, color: black.

3) Image>Merge visible layer>clipped to image>ok

4) Layer>duplicate layer

5) Go to the layers tab and click the “eye” on the “background” layer to inactivate it.

6) Layer>new layer>142x96>advanced option>RGB color + white (fill with).

7) Lower the white layer so is it is below the “background copy” by clicking the arrow button.

8) Image>Merge visible layer>clipped to image> ok

9) Layer>colors>invert

10) Filters>Blur>Gaussian Blur>V: 1 H: 1>ok

11) Left click, drag & drop that layer to the Window of the file in Part 1 ( that layer should appear on the layer tab of the Part 1 file)

12) Layer>New layer>142x96>RGB color + Transparency

13) Filter>Light Effects>Lighting Effects

14) Environment Map tab>enable>Choose the layer with the color gradient

15) Bump Map>enable>Choose the layer with the black background>Max Height: .05

16) Options tab>tick transparent background.

17) Left click and drag the blue dot to the center of the screen>ok

Part 3

1) Go back to the file in part 2

2) Click the “eye” to deactivate the “new layer” and click the “eye” to activate the “background” layer.

3) Layer>duplicate layer (background)>deactivate the background again.

4) Choose the duplicate layer>Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur> V:1, H:1

5) Repeat part 3, step 4 (3-4 times)

6) Drag and drop this (shadow) layer to the Window of the part 2 file.

7) Arrange the layer so that the frame is on top and the shadow layer just below (and both active)

8) deactivate all the rest of the layers.

9) SAVE AS frame.xcf

9) File>open as layer>Pick the picture you want to frame>ok

10) Right-click the picture layer>scale layer (scale and move the layer as you want to frame)

11) Remember the order of the active layers:

Frame
Shadow
Picture

12) SAVE AS as a .jpg file>export>preview> save as less than 10 kb

13) Exit the file BUT do not save the changes so the original .xcf file is preserved

:)