Ellie's Treasures Tuts-Swiss Dots Tile

Click here or scroll down to see alternate tiles They will both open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper For information about which fonts, programs, etc I used to construct my pages and my headers, click here.
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. Filters: VM Natural - Legoland available free here Mura Seamless>Get 1 Tile (in folder E) 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. Open a new canvas, 150 X 150 pixels, or if you want to make a stationery strip, make it the width of your top graphic or the height of your side graphic. The strip will need to be either 1280 pixels wide for a side border strip or 2000 pixels long for a top border strip. Fill it with a color of your choosing or one picked from the graphic with the eyedropper tool.
2. Go to Effects or Filters, depending on your program>VM Natural>Legoland with these settings, Points 29, Radius 67, Distortion 32, Order and Transparency both at 255. (These are default settings except the top slider). Click apply. It should look like this, but it won't be exactly seamless yet.
3. Go to Effects or Filters>Mura Seamless>Get 1 Tile at default settings. You will get this result Take your Magic Wand and click on the outside grey border, Selection>Invert, Control-C to copy and then Paste as New Image. You will get this seamless tile. To make smaller dots (or larger), change the points size in Legoland or fill a larger tile with your seamless tile and then reduce the size. I did that with the blue tile at the top of the tutorial, then I colorized it to the blue color.
You're done! Don't forget to optimize PSP: (File>Export>Jpeg Optimizer). I usually optimize at about 10. PI: I usually optimize at about 90 PS and PSE: I usually save at about 8. Lately I've been saving more files as png files as the quality is so much better. They are a bigger file size though.
More versions
Simple Filters Zoom out and Flip Simple Filters available free here	Simple Filters 4 Way Average	PSP Seamless Tile setting Edge, Bidirectional and Linear checked, H & V and Tr at 50
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Tutorial was written July, 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 Handheld GPS Systems

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 "Crystal Lace Tile" tutorial header is Cheri. 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.