Ellie's Treasures - Quilted Tile

For this tutorial you will need:
ULead PhotoImpact - available for purchase here
or
Adobe Photoshop - available for purchase here
or
Adobe Photoshop Elements - available for purchase here
or
Jasc Paint Shop Pro - available for purchase here
This tutorial will work in any of these programs.

Filters needed
Funhouse filters - Reverb - available free here - also included are old Funhouse filters you can't get any more
Simple filters - Diamonds - 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.

Let's get started!

1. Create a new canvas 200 X 200. Pick two colors to make a gradient with.

2. Fill with gradient.
In PSP, click on your color palette and choose Gradient. Left click on the thumbnail and it will open the window
to choose a gradient. Choose Foreground-Background, it should be right at the top. Angle 45, repeats 0.

In PhotoImpact, pick the two colors, then go to Edit>Fill>Gradient tab and choose the diagonal style,
in the two little color boxes, right click on each and choose the two colors you picked.
Make sure transparency is at 0 and apply the gradient.

In Photoshop and Photoshop Elements, choose the two colors you want to use, now click on the gradient tool.
In PSE it's in the toolbar, in PS it is in the toolbar if you click on the little arrow next to the paint bucket.
Go to your gradient tool toolbar, you'll see it just above main window, click on dropdown menu and pick the top left one,
that will be your foreground-background gradient, make sure linear gradient is picked, that's the style right
next to the color box, style 1, mode normal, opacity 100%, Dither and Transparency checked.
Now starting at the top left, left click and drag to the bottom right. This will fill the gradient into the selection.

Gradient Toolbar for Photoshop/Photoshop Elements

3. Filter (or Effect)>Funhouse>Reverb at default, settings reverb 4, rest at zero

4. Filter (or Effect)>Simple-Diamonds. You're done, save as a jpg.

5. Reduce opacity for a lighter effect
In PI go to Edit>Fill, white at 50-75% transparency

In PSP, right click in layer palette>new raster layer.
Fill with fill tool, white, reduce opacity in layer to 40.

In Photoshop/Photoshop Elements: Layer>New>Layer, then using the Paint Bucket tool,
fill with white, go to the layer palette and reduce opacity to 40%

Some alternative tiles

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Any resemblance to any other tutorial is purely coincidental and unintentional.
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