Making a Patterned 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.

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Step 1

Open a new image 150 X 150 with a transparent background.

Step 2

Flood fill with a dark color of your choice.

Step 3

Using air brush set to Shape: Round, Size 255, Hardness 25, Opacity25, Step 25, and Density 25,  spray your background with a lighter shade in either the same color family or a lighter complimentary shade.

Your tile should look something like this

Step 4

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

You know have something like this

Step 5

Go to Effects/Geometric Effects/CurlyQs and set columns to 10, rows to 10, symmetric checked and size to 100%, strength to 30 and clockwise checked. This will soften the the edges some.

Step 6

Go to Effects/Geometric Effects/Wave and use the following settings:
Horizontal Displacement: Amplitude 50 Wavelength 30. Vertical Displacement: Amplitude 30 Wavelength 50

You should have something like this.

Step 7

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

Step 8

Repeat Step 7, but this time set the Rotation Angle to 270

You should have something like this.

Step 9

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.

That's it!  Your pattern will be different each time depending on how you do Step 3.

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

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

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