I TILED MY BATHROOM TUTORIAL
 MADE BY JETTY, THE NETHERLANDS,
JANUARY 2008


    PREPARING
  1. Open your tube, largest side no more then 360 pixels.
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Choose a light colour from tube and select it as fore-
    ground colour in the material box
  4. Choose a dark colour from tube and select it as
    background colour in the material box
  5. Edit - Copy
  6. Minimize tube

    BACKGROUND
  7. File � New Image: 1580 x 400, transparent
  8. Effects � Eye Candy 5: Textures � Brick Wall: settings:
    • Factory settings: Tile and Grout, Small
    • Basic: these settings:
      Brick Height: 16.64, Aspect Ratio: 1.00, Brick Pattern: Stack,
      Brick Color: your foreground color, Mortar Thickness: 10,
      Mortar Depth: 42, Mortar Color: white or foreground color.
      Flat Mortar: checked, Color Variation: 65, Surface Detail: 15,
      Edge Roughness: 0, Highlight Brightness: 50, Seamless
      Tile: checked, Random Seed: 1


    • Texture Offset: Horizontal Offset and Vertical Offset: 0
  9. Layers � New raster layer
  10. Flood fill your layer with your foreground color
  11. Lower the opacity of this layer to a number between
    55 and 85 to make it more text friendly.
  12. Layers � Merge � Merge visible

    BACKGROUND
  13. In your tool box activate your Selection Tool
  14. In your settings go to Custom Selection

    Settings: Top: 30, Left: 30, Right: 160 and Bottom: 160

  15. Layers � New raster layer
  16. Effects � Eye Candy 5: Textures � Brick Wall: same
    settings as before. Only change in the Basic the Brick
    Color into your background color.
  17. Selections � Select none
  18. Effects � 3d effects � Inner bevel: settings:

    Bevel: 2, Width: 4, Smoothness: 0, Depth: 4,
    Ambience: 0, Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50
    and Elevation: 30
  19. Effects � 3d effects � Drop shadow: Vertical &
    Horizontal: 3, Opacity: 40, Blur: 10 and Color: black
  20. In your tool box activate your Selection Tool
  21. In your settings go to Custom Selection
    Settings: Top: 240, Left: 30, Right: 160 and Bottom: 370
  22. Layers � New raster layer
  23. Effects � Eye Candy 5: Textures � Brick Wall: same
    Settings as before with your background color
  24. Selections � Select None
  25. Effects � 3D Effects � Inner Bevel: same settings.
  26. Effects � 3D Effects � Drop Shadow: same settings.
  27. In your Tool Box activate your Selection Tool
  28. In your settings go to Custom Selection
    Settings: Top: 135, Left: 200, Right: 330 and Bottom: 265
  29. Layers � New Raster Layer
  30. Effects � Eye Candy 5: Textures � Brick Wall: same
    settings as before with your background color
  31. Selections � Select None
  32. Effects � 3D Effects � Inner Bevel: same settings.
  33. Effects � 3D Effects � Drop Shadow: same settings.
  34. Edit � Paste � Paste as New Layer
  35. With your Move Tool move your tube to the left corner
    and position it nicely over the squares
  36. Effects � 3D Effects � Drop Shadow: Vertical &
    Horizontal: 3, Opacity: 40, Blur: 10 and Color: black
  37. Layer � New raster layer
  38. Add your watermark
  39. Layers � Merge � Merge All (Flatten)
  40. File � Export � JPEG Optimizer: compression of 22

    FINISHING
  41. Open Letter Creator
  42. In your body open your background and tile
  43. Mention your credits in your footer
  44. Finish


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I hope you enjoyed making this letter. I would love to see the results.
You can reach me at:
[email protected]

Please put a link to my group:
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For the creatorscommunity, please put a link to my website:
http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/index.htm

My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty
or when they are released in the creatorscommunity at the
earlier mentioned homepage.

With thanks to the brilliant women who have given me
lessons in PSP and Incredimail.
Many things I learnt have been used by me in creating.
Any resemblance with other tutorials is purely coincidental.
And special thanks to my testers for their testing.

You are free to share my tutorials. If you want to use them
for lessons or a groupshare, please let me know. And please
do not hotlink, but text link only. And last but not least
please acknowledge it as my tutorial.

Hugs

Jetty
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