The first thing you need to do is prepare your frame. Now this sounds easy, but it is actually one of the most difficult and time consuming parts of this tutorial. You could use a plugin called eliminate white or similar, but this removes some of the greyed areas, and really doesn't save much time anyway! Open both the leaf frame.jpg (template) and gold glitter tile (minimize this one) and put the mask into your masks directory.

1. You will need to delete all the white sections from the frame - to do this, promote the template to a layer, and add a raster layer, then send the layer you added to the back.

2. Make sure you are working on your image layer! Using your magic wand and the shift key (keep your finger on the shift key throughout this step or you're likely to have to start all over again!), click on all the white sections of the frame - get between all the flowers etc, and the different parts of the frame and inner circle of the frame, but not inside the flowers or the frame outline - once you have your marching ants walking around ALL those white areas, hit the delete key - but DO NOT deselect! Save in psp format here just in case you make a boo boo later :)

3. While the marching ants are still marching, invert your template. KEEP SELECTED! and copy - you can paste this image as a new image if you like, and then minimize it, but you will need to paste it as a new layer in a minute, so I didn't worry about doing that.

4. Open up your patterns selector, and choose the gold glitter tile. Then flood fill your selected areas with the gold. Paste your copied image as a new layer. Turn the visibility on your background layer off, and then merge visible. Your ants should still be marching, so add a drop shadow - use your imagination here, whatever looks best to you :)

You've now finished your frame - yay! Save in psp format in case you decide to change it again :) Now the easy part, the globe :)

5. Click on the centre part of your frame, and while still selected go to selections > modify > expand, and expand by 10 - keep selected!

6. Add a layer, call it picture. Open the image you want to use in your frame, copy it and then paste into selection. I duplicated the picture beforehand, and mirrored it. Keep selected and move the pic layer down under your frame layer. Deselect! and minimize your image.

7. Open your globe image, and copy as a new image. On one of the globes, flip, then mirror, so your shadowed part is at the bottom of the image, copy, then paste as new layer on the globe you didn't flip and mirror - merge visible.

8. I recoloured the globe - using the recolour tool, I changed the fill colour to #BABACC.

9. Now to put your two pictures together - copy your globe image, then maximize your frame image. Add a new layer, and using your selection tool, draw an elipse around the inner part of your frame - no need to be perfect, we'll fix it in a tic.

10. Add a new raster layer to your frame image, and then paste your globe into your still active selection - oh no! the picture vanished!

11. You now need to change the opacity of your globe layer to 50 - ah! the picture's back :)

12. Use your deformation tool to resize your globe (no need for perfection here either), just make sure you have all of the inner frame covered.

13. Move your globe layer down between your pic and frame layer.

14. Deselect and merge all - whew, we're done!

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