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1. Open a new window, set foreground color to: Red - 64, Green - 0, Blue - 0 and Background color to: Red - 255, Green - 255, Blue - 255
2. Use your airbrush tool set at: Size - 200, Shape - Round, Opacity - 75, Paper Texture - Woodgrain
3. Place your airbrush in middle of window and click until desired darkness of woodgrain is achieved.
4. Now, select a rectangular portion in the middle of the woodgrain.
5. Go to Image/Special Effects/Create Seamless Pattern
6. Open up the image you wish to mount as a plaque.
7. On your color palette, select a color that's not used in your image and set this as your background color.
8. Buttonize the image with a transparent edge of 3.
9. Go to Image/Add Borders with symmetrical borders set and size 10.
10. Now, Select All.
11. Modify your selection to make the background color transparent with 0 tolerance.
12. Invert the selection.
13. Use your fill tool with pattern set to the image you set up first (the woodgrain seamless pattern). Fill in the selection.
14. Now, I like to play around with selecting different colors for foreground & background and Hot Wax Coating the selection. I've found that mixtures of lighter colors work the best. Dark colors tend to make the woodgrain indestinguishable.
15. This technique can be used to "mount" pretty much any image. If you want to get the gold metallic effect I used in my demo, I got it by filling an empty window with a gold-ish color (Red - 166, Green - 166, Blue - 113), then applying the Metal Peacocks Filter from Filter Factory E, then I applied the Wood Grain filter from Filter Factory A.
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