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Select the magic wand tool, shown highlighted here, and click in the centre of the image. You should see the area inside the wood selected as shown on the left. If it is, move on to the next step.

If it is not selected just like this, check first that your wood layer is still the selected layer in the layer palette. If it was still the selected layer, then the magic wand tolerance is wrong. If so, use Selections>Select none to get rid of your selection, and then in the tools options palette, set the magic wand tolerance to 50 and click in the centre of the image again. Now it should look like the image on the left.

Open the layer palette, and click the silk layer to select it. Click the button top left of the layer palette to add a new layer between the two you have and rename it 'shadow'. Click on it to make it the current layer.

The first thing we need to do to get our glass effect is to create a shadow inside the edge of the wood, to give the image depth. Use Selections>Modify>Expand and set the number to 5 pixels.

The selection, although you can see the marching ants now a tiny way into the wood, (not as far as the selection on the left) is actually operating on the layer below the wood - the shadow layer - because that is the selected layer. We are going now to fill it with black, and expanding the selection makes sure that there is no gap showing around the edge of the wood because the black will go under the wood by 5 pixels all around.

Fill your selected area with black.

Now use Selections>Modify>contract and set the figure to 25.

Now use Selections>Modify>feather and set the figure to 45.

Hit the delete key and your image will look like this one. You no longer need that selection, (which is where the marching ants go to when you have used the feather option above) so use Selections>Select none.

It still does not look very glassy, but on the next page we will change all that.