Give your work the finesse it deserves.
-Open a black buffer, e.g. 650 x 190
-Paint white "wiggles": airbrush 22-6-0
-Click on Smear and set your airbrush to: 8-100-0 Make tentacles, coming out of your wiggles, nice thin endings Fix
-Copy the buffer and send the copy to the Alpha Channel
-Emboss the original with the default setting (East-Grey Background-Grey Edges) Fix
-Open a white buffer: 650 x 190 Select Filled Rectangle from the Toolbox select "Top to Bottom" from the Trans.Gradient window
-Mix a warm orange:
HSB 29, 255, 255
-Chose Paint from the Toolbox and fill the top half of the buffer Fix
-Select "Bottom to Top" from the Trans.Gradient window and fill the bottom half of the buffer Fix
-Mix a brown gold: HSB 25, 255, 187
-Fill the bottom half Fix
-Select "Top to Bottom" and fill the top quarter Fix
For a nice bronze frame now use the "Antique" paintmode with a transparency setting of 45%
-Copy the embossed buffer to the Second Channel
-Copy the black and white buffer to the Alpha Channel
-Rubemboss......finished!
-Scale your frame strip half the size vertically
-Build the frame by using the Filled Polygon Tool, black paint, and cutting away triangles for composing the parts together.
You can now frame you favorite picture!.