Matte out each part you want to put in a fill background using Dstover and Misc. Once that's complete you can matte out the center, composite an image then output it as a GIF and take it to Dave's shadow tool.

When done, click it on and then re-enter the url back into the shadow tool but this time just change the box at the bottom and click on Top Left. This will put a shaded border around the left and top side so it now looks like a frame.

Take it back to I.M. and optimize and output as a jpg.

Here are the numbers for the path drawing. Just cc&p and put in the coordinate box. Just use a stroke color of a width of 2 (no fill).

M90,30 190,30 240,100 240,220 190,290 90,290 40,220 40,100 90,30 M80,50 200,50 220,90 220,230 200,270 80,270 60,230 60,90 80,50 M20,100 70,10 210,10 260,100 260,220 210,310 70,310 20,220 20,100

Example:
http://www.wtv-zone.com/MsLee/Cards2/irises-poly.jpg

I made it smaller for this tute page but it's 280x320 in it's original form.

Lee's Tutorials
January 14, 2008