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For this tutorial you will need: Jasc Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase here Funhouse filters - Xaggerate - available free here Visual Manipulation (VM) Toolbox- ZoomBlur - available free here Simple filters - offset by 3 - available free here 20-20 - available free here If you want to use the hollyhocks I used, click here. PSD PSP The hollyhocks are in two layers, delete the layer with my name on it. My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited to manage my plugins. You can purchase it here. I am assuming you know the basics of PhotoImpact and where the tools can be located. |
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Open a new canvas, 250 X 250. Open the graphic you will be
making the background for or you can use a psp graphic, psd
graphic, tube, gif, jpg. |
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2. Using eyedropper,
choose a pale to medium color from your graphic. I used #DBA9B5. Flood fill the tile with your color.This is just in case you miss a spot in the pasting. |
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| 3. Copy your chosen graphic or copy a portion of it with the colors you want. If you are using a tube, click on the tube tool. Fill your tile with the graphic, re-pasting if necessary until the colors in the tile are to your satisfaction. Alternately, you can go to selections, select all and then paste the graphic into the selection. This may stretch out the graphic but it doesn't matter here. Each way will give a different effect as will the choice of graphic used. This is what mine looked like after pasting. Merge down. |
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| 4. 4. Go to Effects, Funhouse, Xaggerate, both lines set at 255. Apply. |
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| It should look similar to this. |
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| 5. Go to Effects, Visual Manipulation, Toolbox, Zoom Blur, Amount set at 39, Adjust set at 60. Apply. |
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| It should now look similar to this. |
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| 6. Go to Effects, Simple, Offset by 3. Apply. |
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| It should now look similar to this. |
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| 7. Create new raster layer. Using the same color you filled your tile with in step 1 or use white, flood fill the new layer. Go to the layer palette and turn the opacity of this layer down to 50 (use the slider where you see the 100, slide it down to 50). |
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| It should now look similar to this. Merge all and save as a jpg. |
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| 8. Open 20-20, open your saved jpg in the program, click on image tab, click muted background, make sure seamless tile is checked, and apply. |
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| It should now look like this. It will be seamless. Save and you're done. |
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If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day! |
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