Ellie's Treasures - Textured Tile

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For this tutorial you will need: ULead PhotoImpact - available for trial or purchase here or Corel Paint Shop Pro (or Jasc PSP pre version X)- available for trial or purchase here or Adobe Photoshop - available for trial or purchase here or Adobe Photoshop Elements - available for trial or purchase here ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This tutorial will work in any of these programs and will also work in most graphic programs that support layers and filters and expanding the canvas. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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 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.
Let's get started!
1. Choose a medium to dark color from your graphic Resize your graphic so it's about 400 on longest side Art is Changeling by Seline Fenech
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, save a a jpg. Back to top
Some alternative tiles
give you Art by Beverly Lu	gives you Art by Johanna Pieterman
gives you Art by Christiaan Lassen
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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. ©2003-2006 Ellie's Treasures
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Webpage Design Information
This webpage background was made in PhotoImpact with a tutorial by Deb DeHaven
Sadly, she passed away and her website is not online anymore.
The tutorial for the gel buttons I make, including a menu bar to go with it, is here and is for PhotoImpact
The font I used for the lace headers is BrockScript and you can get it by clicking here
The font I used for the tutorial header is Atlantis.
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.