1. Open a document (300x400 pixels with a transparent background here). Go to the menu under View | Show Rulers.

2. Hold down your mouse and drag it from the ruler into the image. A blue guide should appear once you release the mouse. You can drag them from the upper or left rulers. Make two like this: http://back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/sep00_1-blank.jpg

3. Create a collage similar to this: http://back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/sep00_2-colage.jpg The black in the lower right is the solid colored content page.

4. Make a selection of the left "frame" like this: http://back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/sep00_3-select.jpg

5. Copy Merged and paste it as a new image. Then copy and paste the corner image (in this case, Rose and the biplane) onto this new image.

6. Offset it (just like with seamless backgrounds) with 0 horizontal. You will want to zoom in and make sure it matches the corner picture in the first layer. http://back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/sep00_4-uncut.jpg

7. Lastly, cut the harsh top edge of the corner picture to make it seamless. http://back-to-titanic.com/waves/copal/sep00_5-cut.jpg This will be your left frame's background. Everything above the horizontal guides is the background for the upper frame.

Good luck (and please remember to be original)!

[ Why aren't your frames meeting up? Netscape gives you a default of 3 or 4 pixels and Internet Explorer doesn't. So when you view it in IE it looks correct and Netscape it does not. I usually compromise between the two. ]