SEAMLESS PAINTING TUTORIAL



    PREPARING
  1. Chose tube: height maximum: 380 pixels or resize to maximum 380
  2. Duplicate(shift-D)your tube and close out original
  3. Chose a light color from the tube for your foregroundcolor box
  4. Edit - Copy
  5. Minimize tube

    BACKGROUND TILE
  6. File - New image: 200 x 200 px.
  7. Selections � Select all
  8. Edit � Paste into Selection
  9. Selections � Select none
  10. Layers � New layer (raster)
  11. Floodfill layer with light foreground color
  12. Layers � arrange � send to bottom
  13. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  14. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling (default)
  15. Effects: Filter Factory C: Tile Mix: settings:



    Mixing: 72, Radius: 230
  16. Filters: Filter Factory D: Vortex: Settings



    Rotation: 133, Number of Vortices: 60
  17. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
  18. Your background tile is now ready
  19. Minimize

    BACKGROUND
  20. File � New Image (1280 x 400, transparent)
  21. Go to your material pallet and put your background color
    (box) to pattern
  22. Chose your settings: angle 0, scale 100,
  23. Chose your background tile as pattern
  24. Floodfill the Background with your pattern
  25. Optional: Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling:
    default(should not be necessary)
  26. Layers � New raster layer
  27. Floodfill with your foregroundcolor (materialbox)
  28. Lower the opacity of your layer to 60 - 90
    You should be able to see the tile through it. I chose 75 / 81
  29. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  30. Go to your toolbar and chose selections



    Settings: selection type: rectangle, Mode: add, Feather: 0
    Anti-Alias checked
  31. First we note the width of the tube. Count 50 to it.
  32. Start at in the left top corner at 20 from top. 20 to the right
    and 20 down is the startpoint. The endpoint will be 380 down
    and to the right: the new number of the width (tube width + 50).
    For instance. If your tube is 280 width. Then the endpoint of
    the rectangle will be 380 down x 330 right.
    I used a border of 20 each time, but for a smaller painting you
    might prefer a border of 30 and add 40 instead of 50.
  33. Layers � New raster layer
  34. Floodfill with your pattern (still in background box)
  35. Effects � 3d Effects � Inner bevel: with these settings:


    Bevel: 2, Width: 4, Smoothness: 0, Depth: 4, Ambience: 0
    Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50, Elevation: 30
  36. Effects � 3d effects � Dropshadow: with these settings:
    Horizontal & Vertical: 4, Opacity: 55, Blur: 15
  37. Repeat Dropshadow but now with Horizontal and Vertical -4.
  38. Selections � Select none
  39. Edit � Paste as a new layer
  40. Move with your mover tool to the left end in the square.
  41. Effects � 3d Effects: Dropshadow with these settings:
    horizontal & vertical: 4, opacity: 65, blur: 12, black
  42. Layers � new raster layer: add your watermark
  43. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)

    FINISHING
  44. File � Export � JPEG Optimizer (between 22-26)
  45. In Letter Creator open your background in Body
  46. Tile in your Body
  47. Chose matching color for the text, chose margins
  48. Don�t forget your credits in your footer
  49. Finish
Another example:


I hope you will have fun doing this tutorial.
Please show me your results as I love seeing my tutorials
used and I love seeing nice letters. So please do.
My email is: [email protected]

Please give credit to me in your tutorials. Best to put a
link to my group:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty
or to my homepage:
http://www.geocities.com/ladyluna37/index.htm

If you want to use this tutorial groupswise or include
it in lessons please ask my permission.
I probably won�t refuse but I would like to hear when
it is used.

If there is any resemblance to another tutorial by another
author, it is purely coincidental.

Thanks to the women who have thought me more about Paint
Shop Pro and Incredimail and to the women who test for me.
Without you I couldn�t have done it.

Hugs
Jetty

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