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Thank you Renate and Erika for translating my tutorial.



  
They will both open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.
For this tutorial you will need:
Any graphics program that allows 3rd party filters, such as the ones used here.
You can even do it in free programs that use filters, such as IrfanView.
There are instructions on their home site about adding filters to the program.

Filters and materials needed
 Simple filters - Quick Tile - available free here
VM Instant Art>Three Cut - available free here (entire set of VM filters)
A Tube, object (PI) or PSD file (Adobe)
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My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here.
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I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located.
Here are some arrows and bars you can drag and drop where you need to mark or underline where you are. .
Just left click and drag to where you want it then let go.
They will stay where you put them until you close your browser.
           



Step 1
Open the tube, object or psd file you want to use
Open a new canvas, 300  X 300 pixels and flood fill with the dark color.
Step 2
Go to effects>VM Instant Art>Three Cuts: leave all at default except change rotation to 205
and set the bottom slider to a color you like, or colorize later. I've used color 209 here


It will look like this now
Step 3
Go to Effects>Simple>Quick Tile
Step 4
PSP: create new raster layer, pick bright color from tile (I used #90003b here) flood fill, turn opacity down to 80 in the layer palette
You can play with the color fills here to see what you like and play with the opacity as well.
PI: pick a color from your tile, make it your foreground color, go to Edit>Fill and flood fill the tile at about 50, or your choice.
In my purple canvas I didn't need to mute, when I colorized it I lightened it there (see below).
PS: go to Layer>New>Layer, to create your new layer. Pick a color from your tile and use that color to flood fill the new layer.
Go to the layer in the layer palette and turn the opacity down to where you can see the pattern through.
Use your own judgment. I slid mine down to 76%.

4a: Alternately you can colorize.
PSP: Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize
PI go to Hue-Saturation, check the colorize box
PS: Go to Image>Adjustments>Hue and Saturation, check the colorize box, and leave it on preview
PSE: go to Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue/Saturation, check the colorize box and leave it on preview.
If you choose to colorize you can lighten the color there and don't need to do the muting step as above)
Step 5
Open new canvas 1280X300, white
6. PSP: In your materials palette, for foreground, pick pattern, and choose the tile you just made. Flood fill new canvas.
PI: Copy your tile, select your strip canvas and go to Edit>Fill; pick the image tab and fill from clipboard, tiled image.
Make sure your transparency is set back to 0 when you do this (it will be set at the transparency of the last step).
PS and PSE: Go to Edit>Define Pattern (Make sure you are on your new tile when you do this),
a new window will pop up, name your new pattern, click ok.
Click on your new canvas, go to Edit>Fill Layer>Pattern, and choose the one you selected.

PS and PSE Fill Layer screenshot:
Step 6
PSP: Copy your tube, paste as new layer into stationery canvas, in layer palette,
right click and duplicate layer, then Image>Mirror.
PI paste as object twice, put one at the left and one at the right of the strip.
If you want to mirror it, click on the transform tool and in the tool bar, click on the icon for flip horizontal.
Leave both selected and right click, click align and align vertically). Leave selected
PS and PSE: go to your tube, then go to Select>All, Edit>Copy, go to new canvas, Edit>Paste.
Now in the layer palette, right click and duplicate layer. Go to Image>Transform>Flip Horizontal
(in PSE it's Image>Rotate>Flip layer horizontal) Place one on the right and one on the left.
Make sure the 2 images are aligned.
Step 7
PSP, PS and PSE: Turn bottom layer off by clicking the eye in the layer palette
(see the red ex for the layer I turned off) for the background layer,
Now make sure you are in one of the top two layers and merge visible (you don't need to do this step in PI) 
 
Step 8
PSP: Turn the background back on. In the merged layer, in the layer palette, change the mode from normal to burn
(if that doesn't look good with that tube, try another blending mode).
PI: leave both selected and change blend mode in the layer palette from Always to Luminosity Only,
if that doesn't look right with your tube, try multiply or overlay.
In layer palette, turn the transparency down to about 51 if needed.

 PS and PSE: same as PSP except use overlay for the mode (if that doesn't look good with that tube,
try another blending mode, Luminosity looks good usually).
Right next to that, for opacity, lower it to about 30% or whatever looks good to you.


Done in PSP
You're done! Don't forget to optimize
PSP: (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 20.
PI: I usually optimize at about 80
PS and PSE: I usually save at about 8.
More versions
Done in PhotoImpact
I lightened and colorized at the same time. For the mode I used luminosity only and changed the transparency to 51.
Done in Photoshop
I lightened and colorized at the same time, I changed the blend mode
to Overlay and didn't need to turn down the transparency.
Done in Photoshop
I lightened and colorized at the same time, I changed the blend mode
to Overlay and didn't need to turn down the transparency.
 
Done in Photoshop Elements
I used the blend mode of luminosity
and I changed the opacity to 33%
 
l hope you had fun!
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Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
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this will save the pictures with the page in one single file and will open in a browser.
If not available, save as Web Page, complete (*.htm, *.html).
This will save it with the pictures in a separate folder)
or print it out for your own personal use.
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Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
 Sadly, she passed away but her tutorials just came back online, thanks to PIRCNet.
You can find the tutorial here.
 The font I used for all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "Crystal Lace Tile" tutorial header is Abricadabra.
 Click on the font name to download the font.
I use PhotoImpact to make all of my headers due to the amazing
3D text it has and the wonderful presets available free online
 Most of the presets I use are either the ones that come with PhotoImpact, usually the Gel ones,
or from Deb's PI Tutorials and More (see below) or Carol Oyl's site
 This is the address to Deb's old pages
 http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/millenit/1716/pitutorials/objects/presets/presets1.html
 I can't find any links to her new pages but the presets are still on this page for download.
 For more sites to find PI Presets, take a look at my Great Beginnings page.