Another Background Tile

You will need Paint Shop Pro 7 for this tutorial.

This tutorial requires no other filters.  There are some wonderful effects that are included with Paint Shop Pro and it uses them.

You may send a link to this tutorial through email and to e-groups, you may not send the tutorial.

Step 1

Open a new image 100 X 100 with a transparent background.

Step 2

Flood fill with a color of your choice I used #0466B8 for the example.

Step 3

Select either a lighter or darker shade of your original color, I used #87CAFD.  Now using your Paint Brush set to the following

Draw an X and a cross on your tile.  You should have something like this.

Step 4

Go to Effects/Artistic effects/Brush Strokes and choose the preset called Impasto and apply.

You know have something like this

Step 5

Go to Effects/Reflection Effects/Rotating Mirror and set both the Horizontal and Vertical Offset to 0 and  the Rotation Angle to 180.

Step 6

Repeat Step 5, but this time set the Rotation Angle to 270

You should have something like this.

This is what I used for the bottom background on this page. You can stop here if you want or achieve a different look with another step.

Step 7

Go to Effects/Reflection Effects/Pattern and set Horizontal and Vertical Offset to 0, Rotation Angle to 90, Scale factor to 0, Columns and Rows to 3 and Horizontal and Vertical Shift to 0.

You now have this.  

I used this for the table border on this page.

That's it!  Your pattern will be different each time depending on how you draw your lines in  Step 3.

Here are some of the different ones I came up with.

This is done with a Tic Tac Toe Pattern

Here is how they would look used on a page.

This was done with a 4 diagonals making a diamond in the center.

Here is how they would look used on a page.

Happy creating!

If you have any questions please feel free to email me.

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