Ellie's Treasures Tuts-for-any-Program-3 Cut Tile

Click here or scroll down to see alternate tiles

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
VM Instant Art>Three Cut - available free here (entire set of VM filters)
Simple filters, available free here
No other materials are needed
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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.
Some abbreviations I used: PSP is Paint Shop Pro, PI is PhotoImpact, PS is Photoshop, and PSE is Photoshop Elements.

This is an extremely easy tutorial and can be done by beginners.

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.

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.

2. 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.

For the alternate Version 2, change the rotation to 205.

3. Go to Effects>Simple>Quick Tile

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!

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

Version 1

Version 2

Here, I took the alternative tile and applied
Eye Candy 5 Texture>Animal Fur>Original Image, seamless tile checked

l hope you had fun!
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If you have any questions or suggestions, click on the email button below to contact me. Have a wonderful day!

Tutorial was written October 5, 2005
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These tutorials are all my own creations.
Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
Feel free to share any of my tutorials on this site by a link back to my site,
but do not copy and send the entire tutorial to anyone or any group.
You do not need my permission to share a text link only to this tutorial.
You may also save it to your hard drive (go to File>Save As, and save as an mht file-
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.
©2003-2010 Ellie's Treasures

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Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
Sadly, she passed away and her site is gone.
The font I used for all of the text on the buttons is BrockScript
The font I used for the "3 Cut Tile" tutorial header is Baldur.
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.