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Open the graphic you wish to use as your left border in PSP.
Click on Image on the file menu then choose Image Information...
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Under Image Dimensions find the height of the graphic (the one I am using is
127 pixels)
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Click on the Flood Fill icon and make
your foreground color and your background color the color you wish the plain
part of your background to be
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On the File Menu choose File then New
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In the window that pops up make the width 1300 pixels wide and the height
the height of your graphic you will be using for the background (I will put
1300 X 127 pixels.
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Once that is done you can click OK and you should have a graphic open in PSP
with a background color that you have chosen.
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Now go back to your graphic you previously opened and right click on the
outer box of the graphic window (outside of the graphic itself) and choose
copy.
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Switch back to the graphic that you created with the background color and
right click and paste as new layer.
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Move the graphic over to the far left side so it is lined up against the
left, top and bottom margins of the graphic.
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Go to the File Menu and click on Layers, then Merge, then Merge All
(Flatten).
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Save your graphic and you have now created a bordered background.
