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For this tutorial you will need: ULead PhotoImpact, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Photoshop Elements, or Jasc Paint Shop Pro This tutorial will work in any of these programs. Filters and Materials needed Simple filters - Quick Tile; VM Instant Art>Three Cut My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located. Some abbreviations I used: PSP is Paint Shop Pro, PI is PhotoImpact, PS is Photoshop, and PSE is Photoshop Elements. |
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Let's get started! |
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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. |
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Go to effects>VM Instant Art>Three Cuts: leave all at
default except change rotation to 112 and set the bottom slider to a color you like, or colorize later.  It will look like this now  For the alternate Version 2, change the rotation to 205.  It will look like this now  |
3. Go to
Effects>Simple>Quick Tile
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4. PSP: create
new raster layer, pick bright or medium 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) Watermark and you're finished! 
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Here, I took the
alternative tile and applied Eye Candy 5 Texture>Animal Fur>Original Image, seamless tile checked  |
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If
you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page |
