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Ellie's Treasures UniversalTutorials - Lotus Paper Tiles or Stationery http://www.ellies-treasures.com/universal/lotus/lotus.html |
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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 Filters Unlimited 2 Simple>Quick Tile and Pizza Slice Mirror ************* My plugin windows may look different than yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins You can find it for trial or purchase here |
1. Create a new canvas 300X300; fill tile with a gradient, very light to med dark such as I've picked here. PI, Edit>Fill>Gradient: diagonal arrow down, two colors as shown  PSP, set color palette to gradient, angle of 135, repeats 0, Invert checked  In Photoshop/Photoshop Elements, go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Gradient, click OK in the next window, in the next window, click on Linear, angle at 135, click on the drop down arrow and pick the top left box which will be your foreground-background (or another one if you want),  In Layer Palette, right click and Flatten Image. Yours should end up looking similar to this.  You can use mine if you want. |
2. Effects (or Filter)>Filters Unlimited>Paper Textures>Japanese paper>default settings of 84-87   |
3. Effects (or Filters)>Simple>Pizza slice mirror If you're only making the tile, you're done now. You can save the tile as a jpg. |
| 4. Activate tube and reduce height to about 290 |
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Open a new canvas 1280X300 (if you want to make your canvas a different height, make sure you make your tile the same height first to make sure it tiles properly) Fill your strip with the tile. PI: Copy your tile. Go to Edit>Fill>click on the Image tab and click on Clipboard>Tile the image PSP: set your color palette to Pattern, click on the box, in the next window click on the dropdown arrow and find your tile. It should be right at the top PS/PSE: With your tile highlighted in PS/PSE, go to Edit>Define Pattern, give it a name and save. Now go to Layer>New Fill Layer>Pattern. In the next window, click ok. In the next window, find the pattern you just made, scale 100% and click ok. Now add a tube to the left, apply a drop shadow if desired.  |
| You're done. If you reduce the size, make sure you use your unsharp mask at Radius 1-Amount 64%-Threshold 4. |
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Save PSP: File>Export>Jpeg optimizer - compression of 20. PI: save at about 80 PS/PSE: save at 8 In both PI and and PS/PSE the compression window comes up when you save. |
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