Ellie's Treasures PSP Tutorials - Spherized Tiles

http://www.ellies-treasures.com/psptuts/sphertile/sphertile.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper


 

For this tutorial you will need:
PSP: I've done this tutorial in PSP 9 and PSP XI. I believe it can be done in most versions.
You may have to look around for the commands but it's likely they are there.
Filters and materials needed
 Funhouse filters - Xaggerate - available free here in Funhouse 2 filters: http://www.ellies-treasures.com/files/plugins/Funhouse2.zip
1. Pick a portion of graphic that you want the colors from, select with the selection tool; Edit>Copy; Edit>Paste as new image.
Resize to 300X300, lock aspect ratio unchecked.
2. Go to Effects>Image Effects>Seamless Tiling; settings as shown:
     Mirror, settings are 1-1-65, Bidirectional
3. Go to Adjust>Blur>Gaussian blur>5 (in PSP 7 it's in the Effects menu).
4. Go to Effects>Funhouse>Xaggerate, set to 35-35.
5. Go to Effects>Geometric Effects>Spherize>-100 (make sure you pick -100)
6. Go to Effects>Image>Seamless Tiling>same settings as above, which are:
Settings: Mirror, settings are 1-1-65, Bidirectional
You're done! Don't forget to optimize (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 20.
Lately I've been saving more files as png files as the quality is so much better. The file size is bigger though.
If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html 
Tutorial was written in 2004
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