Ellie's Treasures UniversalTutorials - Gradient Spoke Tiles or Stationery
http://www.ellies-treasures.com/universal/gradspoke/gradspoke.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper
Graphic Program: 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.
Image: to make tile from or put your tube on a compatible background color
Tube (if making stationery): I used art ©Gail Gastfield: http://www.gailgastfield.com/
Filters needed:
Simple filters>Quick Tile
Filter Factory E - available in 8bf format or ffl format
(Get the ffl format if you use Filters Unlimited 2, as I do, or a plugin manager can handle them as well.
If you are putting the filters into your program's plugin folder to use directly without a manager, you will need the 8bf format)
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This is an extremely easy tutorial and can be done by beginners.
Some abbreviations I used: PSP is Paint Shop Pro, PI is PhotoImpact, PS is Photoshop, and PSE is Photoshop Elements.
art is ©Gail Gastfield
If you use a tube, open a new canvas, 300 X 300 pixels, new raster layer, pull to bottom
and flood fill with a complementary color from your tube. Merge all.
If you use a graphic, resize to 300X300 with Lock Aspect Ratio unchecked.
I cropped out most of the white as I didn't want it to have too much white in it
In PhotoImpact, click on options and change radius to 16 pixels
In PSP, click on Adjust>Blur>Gaussian Blur, radius at 16
In Photoshop/Photoshop Elements Effects>Blur>Gaussian Blur 16 pixels
In PI go to Edit>Fill, at 50% transparency
In PSP, right click in layer palette>new raster layer. Fill with fill tool, reduce opacity in layer to 50%
In Photoshop or Photoshop Elements: Layer>New>Layer, then use the Paint Bucket tool to fill, go to the layer palette and reduce opacity to 50%.
50% transparency-orange fill #EFB9A4
50% transparency-white fill
50% transparency-white fill
then FM Tile Tools Blend Emboss twice
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.
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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.
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