Jeweled Backgkround with Blade Pro

1. Save the above black and white graphic "jewel1_mask.gif" to your hard drive, then open in PSP.
2. Increase colors to 16 million.
3. Choose Masks|New|From Image (Source Luminance, Invert Mask Data checked).
4. Choose Masks|Save to Alpha Channel.
5. Choose Masks|Delete and don't choose to merge with layer.
6. Flood fill with white.
7. Add a new layer.
8. Load your selection from the Alpha Channel (Selections|Load from Alpha Channel).
9. Flood fill selection with white.
10. Apply a Blade Pro Preset (I used a blue stone setting). Go for a light shiny look.
11. Invert your selection (Selections|Invert). Flood fill with white.
12. Apply another Blade Pro Preset (I used my gold_old setting). For this one go for a darker color since it will end up as the "outline".
13. Invert your selection again. Choose Selections|Modify|Expand (I expanded by 3). Invert your selection again and hit delete.
14. Since the center ended up white, I selected the center part, flood filled with white and applied the gold_old preset.