Ellie's Treasures Tuts-for-any-Program-Polar Tiles

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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, available free here in 8bf format If you have Filters Unlimited 2, here's the ffx format for all of the Funhouse Filters, download here Simple filters>Quick tile, available free here *************** My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2 to manage my plugins - available for purchase here. ************* I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located. Some shortcuts I use are**: PSP-Paint Shop Pro; PS-Photoshop; PSE-Photoshop Elements; PI-PhotoImpact 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. 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.
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Tutorial was written March 14, 2005 ************ 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 Dialup ISP

Back to top 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 "Polar Tile" tutorial header is Ice &Snow. 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.