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This will open in a new window and print out on standard 8½" X 11" paper

Let's get started!
It's not as long as it looks, it's just that it's for 3 different programs and I gave a number of methods for each program.
Just follow the links at the end of each step for the next step for your program.
I always put in lots of screenshots too, to make things perfectly clear. It's actually a very easy quick tutorial.

PhotoImpact

Method 1
Using the Object Background Eraser
After making your black and white tile,  copy it, then open another canvas, same size,
fill with color of your choice, copy your wire canvas and paste as a layer on the colored canvas.
Click on the Object Magic Eraser, select by line, similarity set to 5, trans to 0,
uncheck the search connected pixels, check anti-aliasing,

Now click on a black spot and it will all change to the color underneath.
The cross-lines will be black and grey and very thin, dotted.
You can either leave them the color they are or, making sure you are in that layer,
go to Hue-Saturation, click on colorize and change the color to one that will harmonize with your tile.
Certain portions of the line will change color (the grey parts) and the black parts will remain black.

Once done, crop if needed, but you have already done this in step 3 so it may not be necessary.
Check if it's seamless (go to File>Preview in browser)
You can stop here if only making a tile.

Method 2
Colorize
Go to Format>Hue and Saturation-check the colorize box, and colorize it the way you want.
Most of the black will remain but the cross-wires will be colorized.




Now click on the Magic Wand tool (behind the selection tool), set the similarity to
100 or more, uncheck search selected pixels, check by Area.

Click on one of the black strips that make up the diamonds,

you will now have a selection like this


Pick a color that goes with the color you've made the "wires", and go to Edit>Fill and fill the selection.
Magic wand was set at similarity of 100 for the first one, and at 150 for the second one below.

You can also do the color replacement, as in method 3, and then
colorize the entire tile afterward as shown at the end of Method 3.

Method 3
Color Replacement and Colorize
With the original tile made, go to Format>Color Replacement
In the color replacement window, pick the eyedropper and with it click on the black in the before view.
Now play with the sliders to get what you want. You have to increase the Lightness a lot to see the color change.
As you see, I moved it all the way up to 79.



If you click on the grey or black lines and set the sliders all the way over to the far right
you will get silver lines. It won't change the color of them though. Just from black and grey to silver.


After color replacing the tile above, as shown, I colorized the entire tile (not just the lines) and came up with this
Colorize is Format>Hue and Saturation-check the colorize box, and colorize it the way you want


Click here to go to making the stationery in PI

Photoshop/Photoshop Elements
Method 1
Color Range
After applying the wire filter, I went to Select>Color Range, in the Color Range box I checked image,
which made the lines appear in the pattern. Make sure Select is set to sampled colors. Fuzziness was set at 40.

Click on one of the faint lines in the pattern. This will select them all. Now go to Edit>Fill
(you can't use the paint bucket for this). I picked foreground color. This changed all of the background to that color
(not the lines, but the lines appeared gold) That's a very nice effect. It has little sparkly white spots in the center of each diamond.
Again I had to crop just a little bit to make it entirely seamless. I just looked at the diamond shape at the top and left
and cut off enough at bottom and right to match it, a matter of a few pixel just off the bottom and the right.
Once selected, just go to Edit>Crop to remove the excess.

Also, see method just below the PSE method that's next
Click here to go to making the stationery in PS/PSE

Method 2
Magic Eraser
After making the basic black and white tile as in Step 2, select all, copy, paste
into new canvas the color you want the background.
Click on the magic eraser tool (behind the eraser tool), uncheck the contiguous box, and click once on the black.



You can also leave the tile as it was, without copying onto another background, then, after getting rid of the black,
leaving you with just the lines, colorize the lines before you move it over to the colored canvas.

Crop the tile. Merge all.
Click here to go to making the stationery in PS/PSE

Colorize
Make the tile as in step 2.
In Photoshop Elements go to Enhance>Adjust Color>Adjust Hue and Saturation.
In Photoshop go to Image>Adjustments>Hue and Saturation.
Click the colorize box and slide the sliders till you find what you like.




Click here to go to making the stationery in PS/PSE

Paint Shop Pro

Method 1
Color Replacer Tool
Make the tile as in Step 2, then go to the Color Replacer Tool to change the black to the color you want.

Make black your background color and the color you want as the foreground color.
Pick a large brush size, 100 or so and, holding down the left mouse button, just paint over the entire tile.
It will replace the black with the color you want.

Play with the tolerance to see what you like.
I tried 50 first and it took out too much of the lines,

I tried 25 and it didn't take out enough.

I found that 43 gave me what I wanted.

You can then sample one of the lines with the eye dropper and make that color the background color.
Pick a darker version of the background color and make it the foreground color.
I left the tolerance at 43. I then went over the canvas again in the same way
it changed the lines to the new color. Quick and easy!
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Method 2
Colorize
Go to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize
Play with the sliders until you see something you like. this will only color the lines and not the black background





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Method 3
Subtract Color Range 1
Make the basic tile. Control-A to select all
Selections>Modify>Select Color Range.
Tolerance at 30, Softness at 20, reference color black, Subtract Color Range selected.

When you click OK,  you will see that the tile now has lines selected.
Open a new canvas, same size, fill with color you want,
over to old tile, Edit>Copy, to new tile Edit>Paste and you will get this.


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Subtract Color Range 2
As above but first colorize your tile (go to Adjust>Hue and Saturation>Colorize). Click ok.
You will see that your lines are colored. Select the black part with the
Magic Wand (behind the selection tool) set at tolerance of 20.
You will see your lines are now selected
Go to Selections>Modify>Select Color Range
check Subtract Color Range, make the reference color black, tolerance 30, softness 20

Now you will open a new canvas the color you want,
back to the old tile, Edit>Copy,
to the new tile Edit>Paste as new layer.
This is the result, with the lines colorized to fuschia and then pasted onto a dark blue canvas.

Check to see if it's seamless. Sometimes in the coloring, you may
have to crop a couple of pixels from the right and bottom again.

Click here to go to making the stationery in PSP
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PhotoImpact
Go to your tile, Edit>Copy; go to the new canvas, Go to Edit>Fill, click on Image
and then check Clipboard>Tile the image.

 

Photoshop/Photoshop Elements
Go to Edit>Define Pattern-name the tile pattern you just made.

Go to a new canvas 1280X300 (or whatever height you need for your tube plus about 25),
In PSE, go to Edit>Fill Layer>choose pattern - in PS it's Edit>Fill,
and in the next window click on the dropdown menu and pick the pattern you just made to fill the new canvas.

 

Paint Shop Pro
In your color palette, pick pattern. Click on the color box to open the window to see the choice of patterns.
At the top of the choices, you will see your new pattern. Choose it. Leave it at angle 0 and 100%

In your new canvas, use the Paint Bucket to flood fill the stationery canvas.

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