Ellie's Treasures Tuts-for-any-Program-Textured 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: 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 Simple-Quick Tile, available free here FM Tile Tools-Blend Emboss, available free here - this is commercial, but after the time limit runs out on it, blend emboss is still one of those that work. Picture: I used Sealife ©Gail Gastfield *************** I use a little program called the The Image Tiler to preview my tiles to see if they're seamless. Not necessary in PI but useful in the other programs. It's license says it's free to be redistributed and all of the links I found for it are dead, so I've uploaded it. Download it here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My plugin windows may look different from yours as I use Filters Unlimited 2** to manage my plugins - available for purchase here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Some abbreviations I use: PSP is Paint Shop Pro, PI is PhotoImpact, PS is Photoshop, and PSE is Photoshop Elements. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I am assuming you know the basics of your graphics program and where the tools can be located. 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. Choose a medium to dark color from your graphic. I used a medium green-blue #63B3C7 Resize your graphic so it's about 400 on longest side I cropped this one as I wanted just the dolphins.
2. Go to Effect>Simple>Quick tile
3. Fill tile with white, 25 percent transparency In PI go to Edit>Fill, transparency set at 25 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 Photoshop/Photoshop Elements: Layer>New>Layer, then using the Paint Bucket tool, fill, then go to the layer palette and reduce opacity
4. Effect (or Filter)>FM Tile Tools>Blend Emboss at default twice, edge wrap checked
5. Fill tile as you did in step 3 but this time with your chosen color.
6. Apply FM tile tools, Blend Emboss at default, once or twice until you like the effect
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 June 28, 2006 ************ 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 Super Mario Bros

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 "Textured Tile" tutorial header is Barker. 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.