TUMBLER TILES TUTORIAL




    PREPARING
  1. Open tube, height maximum: 320 px. or resize to 320
    A tube larger then width works best
  2. Duplicate tube (Shift D) and close original
  3. Chose a light colour from tube and select it as foreground
    colour in the material box
  4. Chose a darker colour for your background colour box
  5. Edit - Copy
  6. Minimize Tube

    BACKGROUND TILE
  7. File � New Image (400x400, transparent)
  8. Selections � Select all
  9. Edit � Paste - Paste into Selection
  10. Selections � Select none
  11. Layers � New layer (raster)
  12. Floodfill layer with light foreground color
  13. Layers � Arrange � Send to bottom
  14. Layers � Merge � Merge visible
  15. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
  16. Adjust � Blur � Gaussian blur: radius of 25
  17. Effects � VM Distortion � Tumbler: settings:
    Generator 1, 2 and 3: 128 and Direction: 128




  18. Effects � Texture effects � Blinds: settings:
    Width: 5, Opacity: 30, Horizontal checked, colour =
    background colour
  19. Effects � Texture effects � Blinds: settings:
    Width: 5, Opacity: 30, nothing checked, colour =
    background colour
  20. Duplicate your image (Shift � D)
  21. Minimize your copy
  22. We continue with the original image
  23. Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
  24. Image � Resize � Resize to 25 %, bicubic
  25. Your background tile is now ready, minimize

    BACKGROUND
  26. File � New Image (1280 x 400, transparent)
  27. Go to your material pallet and put your background color
    (box) to pattern



  28. Chose your settings: angle 0, scale 100,
  29. Chose your background tile as pattern
  30. Flood fill the Background with your pattern
  31. Optional: Effects � Image effects � Seamless tiling: default
    (should not be necessary)
  32. Layers � New raster layer
  33. Flood fill with your foreground colour (material box)
  34. Lower the opacity of your layer to 40 - 80
    You should be able to see the tile through it. I chose 70, 58 and 62.
  35. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)

    FRAME
  36. Activate your copy of the image
  37. Image � Resize - Resize to 95 %, bicubic
  38. Effects � 3d effects � Inner bevel: settings:
    Bevel: 2, Width: 4, Smoothness: 0, Depth: 4, Ambience: 0,
    Shininess: 0, Angle: 315, Intensity: 50, Elevation: 30



  39. Layers � Duplicate
  40. Image � Resize � Resize to 95 %, bicubic,
    Resize all layers: not checked
    You can also chose for resizing 90 %. Look at the
    difference between example one and two.
  41. Layers � Duplicate
  42. Image � Resize � Resize to 95 %, bicubic,
    Resize all layers: not checked
  43. Optional: Layers � Duplicate
    If you prefer three squares skip step 42 and 43. If you
    prefer four squares walk through these steps.
  44. Image � Resize � Resize to 95 %, bicubic,
    Resize all layers: not checked
  45. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  46. Edit � Copy

    BACKGROUND
  47. Activate your background again
  48. Edit � Paste � Paste as New Layer
  49. With your Mover Tool in Toolbox move the frame to
    the left corner.
  50. Activate the copy of your tube
  51. Edit � Copy
  52. Activate your background
  53. Edit � Paste � Paste as a new layer
  54. With your Mover Tool in Toolbox move the tube to
    the left corner and position it nicely
  55. Effects � 3d Effects � Drop shadow: settings:
    Horizontal & Vertical: 4, Opacity: 50 and Blur: 15
  56. Layers � New raster layer
  57. Add your watermark
  58. Layers � Merge � Merge all (flatten)
  59. File � Export: JPEG Optimizer with compression of 20-25

    FINISHING
  60. Open Letter Creator
  61. In your Body open your background
  62. In your body tile
  63. In your Footer mention your credits
  64. Finish


Another example:


And here yet another example:

Here I seamless tiled the square to have a different effect


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

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Or to my website:
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My tutorials can be found in my groupfiles.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IMtutorialsbyJetty or 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 my testers for their testing.

You are free to share my tutorials. If you want to use them for lessons
or a groupshare please ask me and please acknowledge it as my tutorial.

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Jetty
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