Ellie's Treasures Universal Tutorials - Polar Tiles

http://www.ellies-treasures.com/universal/polartile/polartile.html
This tutorial will print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper


  

For this tutorial you will need:
Graphics 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: any little piece of picture will do, that has the colors you want in it
Filters:
Funhouse 2>Polar Convergence
Simple filters>Quick tile
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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.
Some shortcuts I use are: PSP-Paint Shop Pro; PS-Photoshop; PSE-Photoshop Elements; PI-PhotoImpact
1. select a small piece from a graphic


2. Go to Effect>Simple>Quick tile
3. resize, aspect ratio unchecked, to 200X200
     
4. G to Effects>Funhouse>Polar Convergence, leave at default X3-Y6
5. Pick color, med or light, from tile, flood fill and reduce opacity
(or set transparency to) 50%. I used #A1D074, a medium green

In PI go to Edit>Fill

In PSP, right click in layer palette>new raster layer.
Fill with fill tool and then in the layer palette, reduce opacity using the slider

In PS-PSE: Layer>New>Layer, then using the Paint Bucket tool,
fill, then go to the layer palette and reduce opacity
6. If you would like a paler effect, use a white fill instead of a color

*Alternately, if you reverse the steps and do Polar Convergence first and Quick Tile next, this is what you get
  gives you   or, if you mute it 

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.
If you have any questions or suggestions, email me at this page http://www.ellies-treasures.com/email/email.html 
Tutorial was written March 14, 2005
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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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